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Wildfires in Madina

Madina, Mali, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 61,133 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

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. Sun 25 High 37° · 25 % · 34 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Moderate 35° · 26 % · 31 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Moderate 33° · 24 % · 25 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 25 % · 19 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 29 % · 25 km/h
  6. Fri 30 High 35° · 33 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 31 High 33° · 36 % · 44 km/h
  8. Sun 1 High 36° · 25 % · 33 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

61,133
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
20
fires
5,910
km²

How many times has Madina burned?

Madina has burned 20 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Kotouba fire, 19 November 2025, with 2,610 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 61,133 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 55,949 hectares, 9.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 5× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 9× 25
  11.   26
20
fires
5
years with fire
61,133
cumulative ha
55,949
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 Madina

  1. 2,610 ha Kotouba fire, 19 November 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 3,225 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,289 ha Namala Guimba fire, 15 November 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 2,079 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,160 ha Madina fire, 15 November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,365 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 6,418 ha Madina fire, 14 November 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,393 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 2,483 ha Madina fire, 2 November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,467 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 2,677 ha Madina fire, 29 October 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,659 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,934 ha Madina fire, 29 October 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,919 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 3,411 ha Madina fire, 28 October 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,398 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 9,475 ha Madina fire, 26 October 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 9,736 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 2,031 ha Madina fire, 16 November 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,015 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 2,510 ha Madina fire, 11 November 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,492 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 3,555 ha Madina fire, November 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,531 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 2,415 ha Madina fire, October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,396 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 2,151 ha Madina fire, 25 November 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,138 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 2,686 ha Madina fire, 7 November 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,668 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 1,960 ha Madina fire, 6 November 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,893 ha in total · 10 days
  17. 2,152 ha Madina fire, 28 October 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,192 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 3,848 ha Madina fire, 26 October 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,819 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 2,071 ha Madina fire, October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,058 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 2,297 ha Madina fire, February 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,283 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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