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Wildfires in Kouroukoto

Kouroukoto, Mali, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 19,070 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.1% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

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 3 Moderate 34° · 27 % · 19 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Moderate 33° · 41 % · 18 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Moderate 33° · 31 % · 26 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Moderate 35° · 30 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 7 High 35° · 28 % · 29 km/h
  6. Sun 8 High 34° · 23 % · 30 km/h
  7. Mon 9 High 34° · 27 % · 28 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Moderate 35° · 24 % · 22 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

19,070
hectares burned
7.1 %
of its area
9
fires
2,672
km²

How many times has Kouroukoto burned?

Kouroukoto has burned 9 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kouroukoto fire, 16 February 2026, with 2,159 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 19,070 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 17,224 hectares, 6.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
9
fires
6
years with fire
19,070
cumulative ha
17,224
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 Kouroukoto

  1. 2,159 ha Kouroukoto fire, 16 February 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,146 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 2,356 ha Kouroukoto fire, 9 February 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,343 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,720 ha Kouroukoto fire, December 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,704 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 890 ha Koundian fire, 13 December 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 5,439 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 2,282 ha Kouroukoto fire, April 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,270 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 2,986 ha Kouroukoto fire, March 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,971 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 16 ha Sagalo fire, March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,936 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 2,627 ha Kouroukoto fire, January 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,612 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 3,035 ha Kouroukoto fire, May 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,017 ha in total · 5 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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