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Wildfires in Kotouba

Kotouba, Mali, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 9,677 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.1% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

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. Sat 24 Moderate 36° · 32 % · 17 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 35° · 28 % · 30 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 33° · 29 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 33° · 27 % · 24 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 33° · 30 % · 18 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 30 % · 27 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 34 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 33° · 42 % · 44 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

9,677
hectares burned
7.1 %
of its area
5
fires
1,367
km²

How many times has Kotouba burned?

Kotouba has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2020 and 2025. The most recent: Kotouba fire, 21 November 2025, with 530 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
5
fires
3
years with fire
9,677
cumulative ha
21 Nov 2025
most recent

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 Kotouba

  1. 530 ha Kotouba fire, 21 November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,225 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 3,536 ha Kotouba fire, 20 November 2025 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 3,601 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 2,418 ha Kotouba fire, 16 November 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,405 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 947 ha Madina fire, 10 November 2020 0.7% of the municipality · 2,893 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 2,246 ha Kotouba fire, October 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,232 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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