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Wildfires in Talataye

Talataye, Mali, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2024: 12,915 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.6% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 66).

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 Extreme 40° · 13 % · 30 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Extreme 40° · 11 % · 33 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Extreme 39° · 10 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Extreme 39° · 10 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Extreme 40° · 9 % · 31 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Extreme 40° · 8 % · 28 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Extreme 40° · 7 % · 35 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very extreme 41° · 8 % · 39 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

12,915
hectares burned
1.6 %
of its area
7
fires
8,174
km²

How many times has Talataye burned?

Talataye has burned 7 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Talataye fire, February 2026, with 1,454 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 2× 26
7
fires
3
years with fire
12,915
cumulative ha
26 Feb 2026
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 Talataye

  1. 1,454 ha Talataye fire, February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,598 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 275 ha Anchawadi fire, February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,310 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 3,884 ha Talataye fire, November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,852 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,279 ha Tin Hama fire, 19 October 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 3,397 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 2,172 ha Talataye fire, October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,639 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 2,190 ha Talataye fire, March 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,173 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1,661 ha Talataye fire, October 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,684 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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