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Wildfires in Amourj

Amourj, Mauritania, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 10,583 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.2% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 54).

Only fires of 1,000 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. Sun 1 Extreme 38° · 14 % · 28 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Extreme 37° · 13 % · 31 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very high 39° · 13 % · 27 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Extreme 40° · 11 % · 32 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Extreme 40° · 11 % · 54 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Extreme 41° · 9 % · 51 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very extreme 38° · 11 % · 54 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Extreme 34° · 15 % · 49 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

10,583
hectares burned
1.2 %
of its area
9
fires
9,141
km²

How many times has Amourj burned?

Amourj has burned 9 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Amourj fire, October 2026, with 1,281 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
9
fires
7
years with fire
10,583
cumulative ha
25 Oct 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 1,000 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 Mauritania →

Fires that entered Amourj

  1. 1,281 ha Amourj fire, October 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,275 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 858 ha Amourj fire, February 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,439 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 588 ha Basseknou fire, 21 October 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 2,165 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,600 ha Timbedgha fire, February 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 3,584 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 629 ha Amourj fire, December 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,991 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 819 ha Amourj fire, October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,106 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 2,028 ha Amourj fire, October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,772 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 1,080 ha Amourj fire, October 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,076 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 1,699 ha Amourj fire, January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,690 ha in total · 1 day

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/World Food Programme, OCHA ROWCA (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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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