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Wildfires in Ghabou

Ghabou, Mauritania, has had 44 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 103,546 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 31% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 26).

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. Wed 28 High 36° · 15 % · 28 km/h
  2. Thu 29 High 34° · 26 % · 17 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 42 % · 21 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Moderate 32° · 41 % · 23 km/h
  5. Sun 1 High 35° · 27 % · 27 km/h
  6. Mon 2 High 36° · 31 % · 29 km/h
  7. Tue 3 High 37° · 30 % · 27 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

103,546
hectares burned
31 %
of its area
44
fires
3,362
km²

How many times has Ghabou burned?

Ghabou has burned 44 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Ghabou fire, October 2026, with 1,132 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 103,546 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 68,653 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 7× 22
  8. 8× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 7× 25
  11. 4× 26
44
fires
9
years with fire
103,546
cumulative ha
68,653
distinct ha

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 Ghabou

  1. 1,132 ha Ghabou fire, October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,126 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 2,661 ha Ghabou fire, April 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,645 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,657 ha Ghabou fire, March 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,647 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 2,590 ha Ghabou fire, February 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,573 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,852 ha Ghabou fire, 17 November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,842 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 5,428 ha Ghabou fire, 16 November 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 5,401 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,275 ha Ghabou fire, 14 November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,267 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 5,159 ha Ghabou fire, 1 November 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 5,133 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,492 ha Ghabou fire, 21 January 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,484 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 4,370 ha Ghabou fire, 10 January 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 4,345 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 1,070 ha Ghabou fire, 7 January 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,063 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 2,127 ha Ghabou fire, December 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,113 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,074 ha Ghabou fire, November 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,069 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 1,239 ha Ghabou fire, October 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,233 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 3,033 ha Ghabou fire, February 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,015 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 8,287 ha Ghabou fire, January 2024 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 8,237 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 1,811 ha Ghabou fire, 10 December 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,920 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 3,152 ha Ghabou fire, 2 December 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,177 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 1,230 ha Ghabou fire, 1 December 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,224 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 1,417 ha Ghabou fire, November 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,410 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 1,338 ha Ghabou fire, 26 October 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,331 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 1,205 ha Ghabou fire, 26 October 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,199 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 1,162 ha Ghabou fire, 15 October 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,156 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 1,734 ha Ghabou fire, February 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,724 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 2,737 ha Ghabou fire, 31 December 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,720 ha in total · 1 day
  26. 1,665 ha Ghabou fire, 17 December 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,657 ha in total · 2 days
  27. 1,611 ha Ghabou fire, 22 November 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,602 ha in total · 1 day
  28. 4,952 ha Ghabou fire, 1 November 2022 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 4,926 ha in total · 3 days
  29. 7,249 ha Ghabou fire, 30 October 2022 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 7,212 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 1,092 ha Ghabou fire, 25 October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,087 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 2,825 ha Ghabou fire, March 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,811 ha in total · 2 days
  32. 1,013 ha Ghabou fire, 29 December 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 1 day
  33. 1,570 ha Ghabou fire, 5 December 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,561 ha in total · 2 days
  34. 2,445 ha Ghabou fire, 19 November 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,432 ha in total · 3 days
  35. 2,298 ha Ghabou fire, 15 November 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,287 ha in total · 2 days
  36. 1,086 ha Ghabou fire, 24 November 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,080 ha in total · 1 day
  37. 4,878 ha Ghabou fire, 12 November 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,854 ha in total · 2 days
  38. 2,144 ha Ghabou fire, 28 October 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,133 ha in total · 1 day
  39. 1,013 ha Ghabou fire, 27 October 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,008 ha in total · 1 day
  40. 1,353 ha Ghabou fire, March 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,346 ha in total · 2 days
  41. 1,224 ha Ghabou fire, February 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,217 ha in total · 3 days
  42. 1,139 ha Ghabou fire, January 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,133 ha in total · 1 day
  43. 1,516 ha Ghabou fire, December 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,507 ha in total · 1 day
  44. 2,243 ha Ghabou fire, February 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,231 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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