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Wildfires in Karakoro

Karakoro, Mali, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 24,360 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 27% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 38).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 26 Very high 39° · 15 % · 41 km/h
  2. Tue 27 High 36° · 12 % · 28 km/h
  3. Wed 28 High 36° · 12 % · 26 km/h
  4. Thu 29 High 36° · 18 % · 22 km/h
  5. Fri 30 High 37° · 21 % · 20 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Moderate 33° · 29 % · 32 km/h
  7. Sun 1 High 37° · 18 % · 32 km/h
  8. Mon 2 High 39° · 15 % · 29 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

24,360
hectares burned
27 %
of its area
7
fires
913
km²

How many times has Karakoro burned?

Karakoro has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2020, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Koussané fire, 26 February 2026, with 9,348 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 24,360 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 22,485 hectares, 25 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
7
fires
5
years with fire
24,360
cumulative ha
22,485
distinct ha

Fires larger than 2,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Mali →

Fires that entered Karakoro

  1. 9,348 ha Koussané fire, 26 February 2026 10% of the municipality · 12,164 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,621 ha Karakoro fire, February 2026 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 2,605 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 7,134 ha Karakoro fire, January 2026 where it started 7.8% of the municipality · 7,095 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 2,643 ha Karakoro fire, November 2025 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 3,486 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 11 ha Koussané fire, April 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,116 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,811 ha Koussané fire, February 2022 2.0% of the municipality · 7,390 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 792 ha Koussané fire, 24 October 2020 0.9% of the municipality · 3,061 ha in total · 4 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/DNCT - Direction Nationale des Colelctivités Territorielles, DNP - Direction Nationale de la Population, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Mali (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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