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Wildfires in Pétaka

Pétaka, Mali, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 3,569 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 50).

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 23 Extreme 39° · 9 % · 37 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 39° · 9 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 39° · 11 % · 38 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 36° · 12 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 12 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 36° · 14 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 37° · 19 % · 31 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 38° · 15 % · 30 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

3,569
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
3
fires
279
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Pétaka

  1. 1,328 ha Kéréna fire, 10 November 2025 4.8% of the municipality · 5,612 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,597 ha Kéréna fire, February 2024 5.7% of the municipality · 2,136 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 644 ha Douentza Commune fire, November 2023 2.3% of the municipality · 2,298 ha in total · 1 day

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).