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Wildfires in Méguétan

Méguétan, Mali, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 5,590 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.7% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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. Fri 30 High 34° · 33 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Moderate 30° · 52 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sun 1 High 33° · 27 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 2 High 34° · 25 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 3 High 35° · 29 % · 14 km/h
  6. Wed 4 High 35° · 30 % · 18 km/h
  7. Thu 5 High 37° · 23 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 6 High 37° · 23 % · 26 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

5,590
hectares burned
4.7 %
of its area
3
fires
1,200
km²

How many times has Méguétan burned?

Méguétan has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2020 and 2023. The most recent: Méguétan fire, March 2023, with 2,468 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
5,590
cumulative ha
8 Mar 2023
most recent

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 Méguétan

  1. 2,468 ha Méguétan fire, March 2023 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,454 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 193 ha Dinandougou fire, February 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 3,323 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 2,929 ha Méguétan fire, January 2016 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,912 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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