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Wildfires in Ouattagouna

Ouattagouna, Mali, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 7,613 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.5% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 55).

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 1 Extreme 40° · 8 % · 27 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Extreme 40° · 9 % · 32 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Extreme 40° · 13 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Extreme 41° · 8 % · 32 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Extreme 41° · 8 % · 41 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very extreme 40° · 9 % · 51 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Extreme 39° · 11 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Extreme 39° · 10 % · 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

7,613
hectares burned
2.5 %
of its area
3
fires
3,053
km²

How many times has Ouattagouna burned?

Ouattagouna has burned 3 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2025. The most recent: Tessit fire, 9 November 2025, with 1,228 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
3
fires
1
years with fire
7,613
cumulative ha
9 Nov 2025
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 Ouattagouna

  1. 1,228 ha Tessit fire, 9 November 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 5,157 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 5,565 ha Ouattagouna fire, October 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 5,534 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 820 ha Ménaka fire, February 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 2,703 ha in total · 3 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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