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Wildfires in Koundian

Koundian, Mali, has had 23 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 71,495 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 32% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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 Moderate 34° · 28 % · 18 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 29 % · 20 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 33 % · 21 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 39 % · 20 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 66 % · 26 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 33° · 45 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Low 33° · 46 % · 19 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Low 34° · 49 % · 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

71,495
hectares burned
32 %
of its area
23
fires
2,218
km²

How many times has Koundian burned?

Koundian has burned 23 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Koundian fire, 25 November 2025, with 2,817 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 71,495 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 54,409 hectares, 25 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 9× 25
  11.   26
23
fires
7
years with fire
71,495
cumulative ha
54,409
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 Koundian

  1. 2,817 ha Koundian fire, 25 November 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,800 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 2,022 ha Koundian fire, 24 November 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,095 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,646 ha Koundian fire, 22 November 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,630 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 2,269 ha Koundian fire, 19 November 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,104 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 1,362 ha Koundian fire, 16 November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,601 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 6,279 ha Koundian fire, 14 November 2025 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 6,257 ha in total · 18 days
  7. 3,310 ha Koundian fire, 13 November 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,291 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 10,905 ha Bamafélé fire, November 2025 4.9% of the municipality · 26,455 ha in total · 24 days
  9. 1,022 ha Koundian fire, 12 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,387 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 2,854 ha Koundian fire, 26 December 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,836 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 4,578 ha Koundian fire, 13 December 2024 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 5,439 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 2,838 ha Koundian fire, November 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,820 ha in total · 14 days
  13. 2,201 ha Koundian fire, 13 November 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,188 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 2,865 ha Koundian fire, 6 November 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,997 ha in total · 19 days
  15. 2,876 ha Koundian fire, 2 December 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,857 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 2,039 ha Koundian fire, 2 December 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,028 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 2,428 ha Koundian fire, November 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,415 ha in total · 17 days
  18. 4,581 ha Bamafélé fire, November 2021 2.1% of the municipality · 5,278 ha in total · 20 days
  19. 2,159 ha Koundian fire, 23 November 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,146 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 4,227 ha Koundian fire, 5 November 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 4,798 ha in total · 21 days
  21. 3,066 ha Koundian fire, November 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,048 ha in total · 10 days
  22. 2,146 ha Koundian fire, December 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,133 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 4 ha Diokéli fire, April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,617 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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