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Wildfires in Kaédi

Kaédi, Mauritania, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 9,863 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.4% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 31).

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. Thu 29 Very high 36° · 13 % · 26 km/h
  2. Fri 30 High 34° · 25 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sat 31 High 35° · 24 % · 20 km/h
  4. Sun 1 High 36° · 28 % · 26 km/h
  5. Mon 2 High 36° · 25 % · 30 km/h
  6. Tue 3 High 37° · 23 % · 31 km/h
  7. Wed 4 High 37° · 21 % · 33 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very high 38° · 20 % · 30 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

9,863
hectares burned
2.4 %
of its area
7
fires
4,162
km²

How many times has Kaédi burned?

Kaédi has burned 7 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Kaédi fire, February 2026, with 1,199 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 5× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
7
fires
2
years with fire
9,863
cumulative ha
9 Feb 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 Kaédi

  1. 1,199 ha Kaédi fire, February 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,193 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,148 ha Kaédi fire, January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,141 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,612 ha Kaédi fire, 13 February 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,605 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,282 ha Kaédi fire, 13 February 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,219 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,044 ha Kaédi fire, 13 February 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,445 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1,517 ha Kaédi fire, 13 February 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,510 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 2,063 ha Kaédi fire, 13 February 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,818 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/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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