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Wildfires in Kéwa

Kéwa, Mali, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 27,778 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).

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 Very high 38° · 20 % · 35 km/h
  2. Mon 26 High 35° · 19 % · 35 km/h
  3. Tue 27 High 35° · 21 % · 25 km/h
  4. Wed 28 High 35° · 21 % · 20 km/h
  5. Thu 29 High 35° · 30 % · 20 km/h
  6. Fri 30 High 36° · 27 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sat 31 High 37° · 19 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very high 38° · 16 % · 35 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

27,778
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
11
fires
1,066
km²

How many times has Kéwa burned?

Kéwa has burned 11 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kéwa fire, March 2026, with 2,030 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 27,778 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 22,052 hectares, 21 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
11
fires
6
years with fire
27,778
cumulative ha
22,052
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 Kéwa

  1. 2,030 ha Kéwa fire, March 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,018 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,078 ha Kéwa fire, March 2025 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,065 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 682 ha Ouro Ali fire, April 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 2,500 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 2,538 ha Kéwa fire, 23 February 2022 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 4,158 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 4,418 ha Kéwa fire, 2 February 2022 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 4,916 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 1,837 ha Derrary fire, March 2021 1.7% of the municipality · 5,420 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 5,493 ha Kéwa fire, 28 March 2021 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 5,461 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 2,215 ha Kéwa fire, 26 March 2021 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,202 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 2,399 ha Kéwa fire, 9 March 2021 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,384 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 1,752 ha Kéwa fire, February 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,242 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 2,337 ha Kéwa fire, December 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,325 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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