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Wildfires in N'tillit

N'tillit, Mali, has had 38 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 161,330 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 52).

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 27 Extreme 38° · 12 % · 23 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Extreme 38° · 14 % · 22 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Extreme 39° · 15 % · 28 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very high 39° · 12 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very high 39° · 12 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Extreme 39° · 11 % · 40 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Extreme 39° · 9 % · 34 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Extreme 40° · 9 % · 31 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

161,330
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
38
fires
12,208
km²

How many times has N'tillit burned?

N'tillit has burned 38 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: N'tillit fire, January 2026, with 2,886 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 161,330 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 144,955 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 7× 24
  10. 24× 25
  11. 1× 26
38
fires
6
years with fire
161,330
cumulative ha
144,955
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 N'tillit

  1. 2,886 ha N'tillit fire, January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,867 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,890 ha N'tillit fire, 9 December 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,182 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 3,472 ha N'tillit fire, 8 December 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,457 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 6,187 ha N'tillit fire, 8 December 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,295 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,829 ha N'tillit fire, November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,373 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 828 ha Tessit fire, 1 November 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 4,628 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 3,193 ha N'tillit fire, 31 October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,227 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 2,710 ha N'tillit fire, 30 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,697 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 5,711 ha N'tillit fire, 27 October 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,680 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 3,121 ha N'tillit fire, 26 October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,106 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 2,353 ha N'tillit fire, 25 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,343 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 4,632 ha N'tillit fire, 25 October 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,608 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 3,366 ha N'tillit fire, 24 October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,350 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 2,991 ha N'tillit fire, 24 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,976 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 2,841 ha N'tillit fire, 24 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,831 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 3,488 ha N'tillit fire, 24 October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,474 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 3,232 ha N'tillit fire, 23 October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,219 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 2,061 ha N'tillit fire, 23 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,052 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 17,192 ha Tessit fire, 21 October 2025 1.4% of the municipality · 18,748 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 2,922 ha N'tillit fire, 20 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,902 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 4,551 ha Tessit fire, 16 October 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 41,288 ha in total · 10 days
  22. 1,438 ha Gabéro fire, 5 October 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 2,310 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 4,209 ha N'tillit fire, 5 October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,181 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 1,317 ha N'tillit fire, 4 October 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,702 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 3,046 ha N'tillit fire, January 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,024 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 2,024 ha N'tillit fire, 10 November 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,015 ha in total · 6 days
  27. 660 ha Gabéro fire, 8 November 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,221 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 4,834 ha N'tillit fire, 6 November 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,593 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 30,327 ha N'tillit fire, 6 November 2024 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 40,019 ha in total · 10 days
  30. 2,473 ha N'tillit fire, 31 October 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,459 ha in total · 3 days
  31. 2,057 ha N'tillit fire, 19 October 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,053 ha in total · 1 day
  32. 8,256 ha N'tillit fire, 19 October 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,710 ha in total · 4 days
  33. 3,124 ha N'tillit fire, November 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,103 ha in total · 2 days
  34. 2,933 ha N'tillit fire, 25 October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,915 ha in total · 2 days
  35. 2,282 ha N'tillit fire, 25 October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,267 ha in total · 2 days
  36. 2,041 ha N'tillit fire, November 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,029 ha in total · 2 days
  37. 6,633 ha N'tillit fire, 8 April 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,593 ha in total · 2 days
  38. 2,222 ha N'tillit fire, 8 April 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,209 ha in total · 2 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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