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Wildfires in Koulou

Koulou, Mali, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 23,026 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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. Thu 29 Moderate 32° · 35 % · 15 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Moderate 32° · 46 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 62 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 64 % · 25 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 54 % · 25 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Low 33° · 40 % · 23 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Low 33° · 39 % · 28 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Moderate 36° · 36 % · 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

23,026
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
9
fires
2,111
km²

How many times has Koulou burned?

Koulou has burned 9 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Koulou fire, 18 February 2026, with 3,347 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 23,026 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 21,741 hectares, 10 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
9
fires
6
years with fire
23,026
cumulative ha
21,741
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 Koulou

  1. 3,347 ha Koulou fire, 18 February 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,329 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 2,706 ha Koulou fire, 10 February 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,688 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 3,481 ha Koulou fire, January 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,459 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 2,347 ha Koulou fire, April 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,332 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 2,465 ha Koulou fire, April 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,450 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,268 ha Gadougou 1 fire, February 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 2,189 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,247 ha Koulou fire, February 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,232 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 2,398 ha Koulou fire, April 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,385 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 2,765 ha Koulou fire, February 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,749 ha in total · 3 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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