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Wildfires in Kontéla

Kontéla, Mali, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 15,306 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 22).

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. Tue 27 High 33° · 21 % · 27 km/h
  2. Wed 28 High 33° · 24 % · 27 km/h
  3. Thu 29 High 34° · 27 % · 23 km/h
  4. Fri 30 High 34° · 33 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Low 31° · 40 % · 48 km/h
  6. Sun 1 High 34° · 24 % · 37 km/h
  7. Mon 2 High 35° · 22 % · 35 km/h
  8. Tue 3 High 36° · 23 % · 23 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

15,306
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
5
fires
1,068
km²

How many times has Kontéla burned?

Kontéla has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Kontéla fire, April 2026, with 2,674 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 15,306 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 11,736 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
3
years with fire
15,306
cumulative ha
11,736
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 Kontéla

  1. 2,674 ha Kontéla fire, April 2026 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,773 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 2,710 ha Kontéla fire, December 2021 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,694 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 5,597 ha Diallan fire, February 2021 5.2% of the municipality · 6,896 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 2,237 ha Kontéla fire, 6 December 2016 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,224 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 2,088 ha Kontéla fire, 3 December 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,202 ha in total · 6 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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