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Wildfires in Sefeto Ouest

Sefeto Ouest, Mali, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 12,696 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.5% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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 31 Low 28° · 52 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Moderate 34° · 34 % · 15 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Moderate 35° · 28 % · 19 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Moderate 36° · 25 % · 17 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Moderate 36° · 27 % · 17 km/h
  6. Thu 5 High 36° · 24 % · 29 km/h
  7. Fri 6 High 38° · 22 % · 34 km/h
  8. Sat 7 High 37° · 26 % · 38 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

12,696
hectares burned
6.5 %
of its area
6
fires
1,957
km²

How many times has Sefeto Ouest burned?

Sefeto Ouest has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sefeto Ouest fire, October 2026, with 2,690 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,696 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 11,275 hectares, 5.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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  10. 3× 25
  11. 1× 26
6
fires
4
years with fire
12,696
cumulative ha
11,275
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 Sefeto Ouest

  1. 2,690 ha Sefeto Ouest fire, October 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,675 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 2,146 ha Oualia fire, 12 November 2025 1.1% of the municipality · 4,481 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 2,938 ha Sefeto Ouest fire, 27 October 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,923 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 2,440 ha Sefeto Ouest fire, 22 October 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,425 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 1,839 ha Sefeto Ouest fire, November 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,265 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 643 ha Oualia fire, November 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 2,084 ha in total · 10 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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