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Wildfires in Tin Hama

Tin Hama, Mali, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 26,314 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.5% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 65).

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 3 Extreme 41° · 12 % · 37 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Extreme 41° · 7 % · 36 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Extreme 41° · 8 % · 40 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very extreme 41° · 9 % · 46 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Extreme 40° · 10 % · 35 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Extreme 39° · 11 % · 28 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Extreme 40° · 10 % · 35 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Extreme 39° · 9 % · 42 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

26,314
hectares burned
7.5 %
of its area
11
fires
3,501
km²

How many times has Tin Hama burned?

Tin Hama has burned 11 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2019, 2022, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Tin Hama fire, 23 October 2025, with 4,312 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 26,314 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 24,755 hectares, 7.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11.   26
11
fires
4
years with fire
26,314
cumulative ha
24,755
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 Tin Hama

  1. 4,312 ha Tin Hama fire, 23 October 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,958 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,135 ha Tin Hama fire, 19 October 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,397 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,484 ha Talataye fire, October 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 3,639 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 3,886 ha Tin Hama fire, 2 October 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,866 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 3,500 ha Tin Hama fire, 31 October 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,483 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 3,026 ha Tin Hama fire, 29 October 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,011 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 236 ha Bourra fire, 29 October 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 5,366 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 2,383 ha Tin Hama fire, 27 October 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,371 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,035 ha Talataye fire, October 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 2,684 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 2,146 ha Tin Hama fire, December 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,135 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 2,171 ha Tin Hama fire, April 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,161 ha in total · 2 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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