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Wildfires in Koussané

Koussané, Mali, has had 40 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 123,223 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 39% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 42).

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 High 39° · 23 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 39° · 15 % · 45 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very high 38° · 15 % · 39 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 36° · 12 % · 36 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 36° · 12 % · 34 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 36° · 12 % · 28 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 37° · 14 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very high 36° · 17 % · 40 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

123,223
hectares burned
39 %
of its area
40
fires
3,165
km²

How many times has Koussané burned?

Koussané has burned 40 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Bangassi fire, 22 October 2026, with 452 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 123,223 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 99,361 hectares, 31 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 10× 25
  11. 11× 26
40
fires
10
years with fire
123,223
cumulative ha
99,361
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 Koussané

  1. 452 ha Bangassi fire, 22 October 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,390 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 7,492 ha Koussané fire, October 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 7,542 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 3 ha Bangassi fire, 13 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,485 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 2,123 ha Koussané fire, 3 April 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,110 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 2,056 ha Koussané fire, 1 April 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,042 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 6,806 ha Koussané fire, 17 March 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 6,764 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 68 ha Séro Diamanou fire, March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,345 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 2,666 ha Koussané fire, 10 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,697 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 2,887 ha Koussané fire, 26 February 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 12,164 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 2,602 ha Koussané fire, 19 February 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,587 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 5,845 ha Koussané fire, January 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 5,802 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 676 ha Karakoro fire, November 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 3,486 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,774 ha Koussané fire, 2 November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,967 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 3,365 ha Koussané fire, 2 November 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,348 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 4,233 ha Koussané fire, 1 November 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 4,204 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 3,325 ha Koussané fire, 27 October 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,744 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 2,453 ha Koussané fire, 25 October 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,439 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 2,591 ha Koussané fire, 24 October 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,575 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 2,256 ha Koussané fire, 24 October 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,246 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 2,473 ha Koussané fire, April 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,456 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 2,468 ha Koussané fire, February 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,522 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 2,585 ha Koussané fire, November 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,568 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 2,840 ha Koussané fire, October 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,821 ha in total · 1 day
  24. 3,123 ha Koussané fire, April 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,116 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 6,324 ha Koussané fire, November 2023 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 6,290 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 1,260 ha Koussané fire, March 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,208 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 2,414 ha Koussané fire, October 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,398 ha in total · 4 days
  28. 3,572 ha Koussané fire, March 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,613 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 5,622 ha Koussané fire, February 2022 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 7,390 ha in total · 4 days
  30. 2,285 ha Koussané fire, January 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,273 ha in total · 3 days
  31. 5,635 ha Koussané fire, October 2021 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 5,599 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 4,817 ha Koussané fire, November 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 4,789 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 2,257 ha Koussané fire, 25 October 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,245 ha in total · 3 days
  34. 2,080 ha Koussané fire, 25 October 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,070 ha in total · 3 days
  35. 1,803 ha Koussané fire, 25 October 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,061 ha in total · 3 days
  36. 2,718 ha Koussané fire, 24 October 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,703 ha in total · 3 days
  37. 2,373 ha Koussané fire, January 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,362 ha in total · 2 days
  38. 5,347 ha Koussané fire, November 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 5,318 ha in total · 3 days
  39. 3,156 ha Koussané fire, December 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,306 ha in total · 2 days
  40. 4,396 ha Koussané fire, November 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,370 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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