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Wildfires in Soumpou

Soumpou, Mali, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 38,661 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 94% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 34).

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. Tue 27 High 36° · 13 % · 32 km/h
  2. Wed 28 High 36° · 13 % · 32 km/h
  3. Thu 29 High 36° · 16 % · 24 km/h
  4. Fri 30 High 36° · 22 % · 28 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Moderate 34° · 28 % · 36 km/h
  6. Sun 1 High 37° · 18 % · 36 km/h
  7. Mon 2 High 38° · 17 % · 32 km/h
  8. Tue 3 High 38° · 21 % · 26 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

38,661
hectares burned
94 %
of its area
20
fires
412
km²

How many times has Soumpou burned?

Soumpou has burned 20 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Soumpou fire, October 2026, with 4,124 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 38,661 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 25,568 hectares, 62 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 4× 26
20
fires
8
years with fire
38,661
cumulative ha
25,568
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 Soumpou

  1. 4,124 ha Soumpou fire, October 2026 where it started 10% of the municipality · 4,402 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 50 ha Guidimé fire, 22 October 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,906 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 5 ha Fanga fire, 15 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 6,794 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 1,514 ha Marintoumania fire, October 2026 3.7% of the municipality · 36,894 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 637 ha Guidimé fire, 29 October 2025 1.6% of the municipality · 2,307 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 116 ha Fanga fire, October 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 5,990 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 6,063 ha Guidimé fire, 21 October 2025 15% of the municipality · 11,924 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 604 ha Soumpou fire, 26 October 2022 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,000 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 605 ha Soumpou fire, 26 October 2022 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,103 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 904 ha Guidimé fire, October 2022 2.2% of the municipality · 2,595 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 2,315 ha Soumpou fire, December 2021 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 2,302 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 14 ha Fanga fire, October 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,461 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 3,289 ha Soumpou fire, October 2020 where it started 8.0% of the municipality · 3,270 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 1,242 ha Guidimé fire, March 2020 3.0% of the municipality · 2,340 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 2,739 ha Soumpou fire, November 2019 where it started 6.6% of the municipality · 2,991 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 44 ha Fanga fire, 22 October 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 4,800 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 7,638 ha Guidimé fire, October 2017 19% of the municipality · 7,711 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 475 ha Guidimé fire, 9 November 2016 1.2% of the municipality · 3,848 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 3,408 ha Soumpou fire, 29 October 2016 where it started 8.3% of the municipality · 3,635 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 2,875 ha Soumpou fire, 29 October 2016 where it started 7.0% of the municipality · 2,994 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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