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Wildfires in Madiga Sacko

Madiga Sacko, Mali, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 139 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.5% 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. Thu 5 Very high 36° · 23 % · 39 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Very high 36° · 25 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very high 35° · 24 % · 34 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very high 34° · 21 % · 33 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very high 33° · 22 % · 30 km/h
  6. Tue 10 High 34° · 22 % · 27 km/h
  7. Wed 11 High 35° · 21 % · 22 km/h
  8. Thu 12 High 35° · 21 % · 18 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Madiga Sacko: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

139
hectares burned
0.5 %
of its area
2
fires
290
km²

How many times has Madiga Sacko burned?

Madiga Sacko has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2025. The most recent: Diéma fire, November 2025, with 57 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 139 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 104 hectares, 0.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
139
cumulative ha
104
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 Madiga Sacko

  1. 57 ha Diéma fire, November 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 2,692 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 82 ha Diéma fire, February 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 2,147 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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