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Wildfires in Sokoura

Sokoura, Mali, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 6,449 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.2% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 27).

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° · 19 % · 14 km/h
  2. Thu 29 High 35° · 30 % · 21 km/h
  3. Fri 30 High 36° · 29 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sat 31 High 35° · 30 % · 14 km/h
  5. Sun 1 High 37° · 17 % · 28 km/h
  6. Mon 2 High 38° · 18 % · 32 km/h
  7. Tue 3 High 38° · 18 % · 25 km/h
  8. Wed 4 High 38° · 17 % · 21 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

6,449
hectares burned
7.2 %
of its area
2
fires
893
km²

How many times has Sokoura burned?

Sokoura has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2021. The most recent: Timissa fire, February 2021, with 4,227 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,449 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,603 hectares, 6.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
6,449
cumulative ha
5,603
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 Sokoura

  1. 4,227 ha Timissa fire, February 2021 4.7% of the municipality · 12,485 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 2,221 ha Ségué fire, February 2020 2.5% of the municipality · 18,490 ha in total · 7 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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