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Wildfires in Ouagadou

Ouagadou, Mali, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 35,526 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 31% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 33).

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. Wed 28 High 35° · 16 % · 23 km/h
  2. Thu 29 High 36° · 18 % · 24 km/h
  3. Fri 30 High 36° · 20 % · 16 km/h
  4. Sat 31 High 36° · 30 % · 23 km/h
  5. Sun 1 High 36° · 25 % · 22 km/h
  6. Mon 2 High 37° · 16 % · 34 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very high 38° · 13 % · 30 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very high 38° · 16 % · 27 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

35,526
hectares burned
31 %
of its area
15
fires
1,135
km²

How many times has Ouagadou burned?

Ouagadou has burned 15 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Niamana fire, 28 October 2026, with 248 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 35,526 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 26,511 hectares, 23 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 3× 26
15
fires
7
years with fire
35,526
cumulative ha
26,511
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 Ouagadou

  1. 248 ha Niamana fire, 28 October 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 3,158 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 381 ha Dilly fire, 23 October 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 2,641 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,683 ha Nara fire, October 2026 1.5% of the municipality · 2,432 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 2,300 ha Ouagadou fire, November 2025 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,287 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 323 ha Dilly fire, 1 November 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 8,498 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 4,329 ha Ouagadou fire, 31 October 2025 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 4,307 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 3,115 ha Ouagadou fire, 5 October 2025 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 4,661 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 2,144 ha Ouagadou fire, December 2022 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,133 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,595 ha Ouagadou fire, October 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,421 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 592 ha Dilly fire, 27 October 2018 0.5% of the municipality · 2,339 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 1,868 ha Ouagadou fire, 28 October 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,113 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 2,281 ha Ouagadou fire, 25 October 2017 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,268 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 3,038 ha Ouagadou fire, 17 October 2017 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 3,022 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 3,548 ha Ouagadou fire, October 2016 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 3,631 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 8,080 ha Ouagadou fire, January 2016 where it started 7.1% of the municipality · 8,414 ha in total · 6 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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