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Wildfires in Oualia

Oualia, Mali, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 31,207 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.1% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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. Sat 24 Moderate 37° · 27 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 36° · 29 % · 32 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 35° · 25 % · 41 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 34° · 22 % · 31 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 35° · 20 % · 21 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 35° · 22 % · 24 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 36° · 31 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 32° · 36 % · 45 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

31,207
hectares burned
9.1 %
of its area
15
fires
3,445
km²

How many times has Oualia burned?

Oualia has burned 15 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Oualia fire, May 2026, with 2,126 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 31,207 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 30,117 hectares, 8.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 8× 25
  11. 2× 26
15
fires
6
years with fire
31,207
cumulative ha
30,117
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 Oualia

  1. 2,126 ha Oualia fire, May 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,114 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 3,084 ha Oualia fire, April 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,065 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 1,483 ha Diokéli fire, November 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 3,539 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 5 ha Mahina fire, 22 November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,011 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 2,747 ha Oualia fire, 15 November 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,731 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 2,549 ha Oualia fire, 14 November 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,535 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,756 ha Mahina fire, 14 November 2025 0.5% of the municipality · 4,622 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 2,360 ha Oualia fire, 12 November 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,481 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 2,300 ha Oualia fire, October 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,285 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 2,468 ha Oualia fire, March 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,453 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 3,423 ha Oualia fire, November 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,403 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 438 ha Sefeto Ouest fire, November 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 2,265 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 2,762 ha Oualia fire, November 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,745 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 2,253 ha Oualia fire, February 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,238 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 1,453 ha Oualia fire, November 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,084 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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