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Wildfires in Kassama

Kassama, Mali, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 6,265 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.3% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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. Sun 25 Low 36° · 34 % · 19 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Moderate 34° · 31 % · 25 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 30 % · 17 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Moderate 33° · 44 % · 18 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 34 % · 27 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 33° · 48 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 58 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 32° · 47 % · 20 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

6,265
hectares burned
6.3 %
of its area
4
fires
1,001
km²

How many times has Kassama burned?

Kassama has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Kassama fire, November 2025, with 2,735 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,265 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,863 hectares, 4.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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  2.   17
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  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
4
fires
2
years with fire
6,265
cumulative ha
4,863
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 Kassama

  1. 2,735 ha Kassama fire, November 2025 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,718 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,257 ha Koundian fire, 22 November 2025 1.3% of the municipality · 2,601 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 20 ha Koundian fire, 14 November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 6,257 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 2,254 ha Kassama fire, November 2023 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,326 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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