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Wildfires in Basseknou

Basseknou, Mauritania, has had 52 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 111,119 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.0% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 62).

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 25 Very extreme 39° · 12 % · 56 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Extreme 35° · 12 % · 41 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Extreme 34° · 12 % · 33 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 12 % · 28 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Extreme 37° · 13 % · 27 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very high 38° · 19 % · 33 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very extreme 38° · 17 % · 52 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Extreme 38° · 14 % · 34 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

111,119
hectares burned
9.0 %
of its area
52
fires
12,333
km²

How many times has Basseknou burned?

Basseknou has burned 52 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Basseknou fire, October 2026, with 7,029 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 7× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 13× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 6× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 8× 25
  11. 7× 26
52
fires
10
years with fire
111,119
cumulative ha
23 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 Basseknou

  1. 7,029 ha Basseknou fire, October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,001 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,183 ha Basseknou fire, September 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,177 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 589 ha Amourj fire, February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,439 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,296 ha Basseknou fire, 13 February 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,287 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 2,044 ha Basseknou fire, 13 February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,029 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 3,244 ha Basseknou fire, 22 January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,223 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,083 ha Basseknou fire, 12 January 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,076 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 1,200 ha Basseknou fire, 28 November 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,192 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 1,193 ha Basseknou fire, 23 November 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,185 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 7,981 ha Basseknou fire, 2 November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,934 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 2,105 ha Basseknou fire, 29 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,092 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 3,365 ha Basseknou fire, 28 October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,353 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 2,109 ha Basseknou fire, 21 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,098 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 625 ha Basseknou fire, 21 October 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,165 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 1,063 ha Basseknou fire, 5 October 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,060 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 2,379 ha Basseknou fire, October 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,370 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 1,792 ha Basseknou fire, November 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,785 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 1,014 ha Basseknou fire, October 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,009 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 1,047 ha Basseknou fire, March 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,040 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 1,279 ha Basseknou fire, February 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,273 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 1,392 ha Basseknou fire, 26 January 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,387 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 1,013 ha Basseknou fire, 14 January 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 2,338 ha Basseknou fire, November 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,324 ha in total · 1 day
  24. 1,075 ha Basseknou fire, October 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,071 ha in total · 1 day
  25. 1,432 ha Basseknou fire, February 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,423 ha in total · 1 day
  26. 2,330 ha Basseknou fire, 26 October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,316 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 1,233 ha Basseknou fire, 24 October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,226 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 3,180 ha Basseknou fire, 14 October 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,167 ha in total · 1 day
  29. 1,189 ha Basseknou fire, 10 October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,184 ha in total · 1 day
  30. 1,394 ha Basseknou fire, 28 March 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,386 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 8,985 ha Basseknou fire, 28 March 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,929 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 1,653 ha Basseknou fire, February 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,642 ha in total · 2 days
  33. 2,045 ha Basseknou fire, 29 January 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,034 ha in total · 1 day
  34. 2,185 ha Basseknou fire, 21 January 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,173 ha in total · 2 days
  35. 1,613 ha Basseknou fire, 18 January 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,603 ha in total · 1 day
  36. 1,105 ha Basseknou fire, 17 January 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,098 ha in total · 1 day
  37. 1,039 ha Basseknou fire, 17 January 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,031 ha in total · 1 day
  38. 3,774 ha Basseknou fire, 17 January 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,747 ha in total · 2 days
  39. 1,202 ha Basseknou fire, 28 December 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,195 ha in total · 1 day
  40. 1,932 ha Basseknou fire, 27 December 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,921 ha in total · 2 days
  41. 1,434 ha Basseknou fire, November 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,426 ha in total · 1 day
  42. 3,861 ha Basseknou fire, 31 October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,846 ha in total · 1 day
  43. 1,489 ha Basseknou fire, 27 October 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,483 ha in total · 1 day
  44. 2,842 ha Basseknou fire, 16 October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,401 ha in total · 2 days
  45. 2,229 ha Basseknou fire, 16 October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,219 ha in total · 1 day
  46. 1,215 ha Basseknou fire, July 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,206 ha in total · 1 day
  47. 4,179 ha Basseknou fire, 14 May 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,155 ha in total · 1 day
  48. 1,423 ha Basseknou fire, 5 May 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,414 ha in total · 2 days
  49. 2,573 ha Basseknou fire, 3 May 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,558 ha in total · 2 days
  50. 1,310 ha Basseknou fire, January 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,303 ha in total · 2 days
  51. 760 ha Amourj fire, October 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 2,772 ha in total · 1 day
  52. 2,075 ha Basseknou fire, October 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,066 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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