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Wildfires in Kankossa

Kankossa, Mauritania, has had 44 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 128,475 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% 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. Sat 24 High 40° · 17 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Extreme 39° · 14 % · 50 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very high 38° · 14 % · 40 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very high 35° · 12 % · 33 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 12 % · 32 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very high 35° · 12 % · 23 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very high 36° · 14 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 35° · 19 % · 29 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

128,475
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
44
fires
10,279
km²

How many times has Kankossa burned?

Kankossa has burned 44 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kankossa fire, 12 May 2026, with 1,161 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 128,475 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 103,444 hectares, 10 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 5× 21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 8× 24
  10. 15× 25
  11. 5× 26
44
fires
8
years with fire
128,475
cumulative ha
103,444
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 Kankossa

  1. 1,161 ha Kankossa fire, 12 May 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,156 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 2,929 ha Kankossa fire, 12 May 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,917 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1,473 ha Kankossa fire, March 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,468 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 4,552 ha Kankossa fire, February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,758 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 170 ha Tintane fire, January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,703 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,946 ha Kankossa fire, 17 November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,935 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,266 ha Kankossa fire, 16 November 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,258 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 15,429 ha Kankossa fire, 15 November 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 15,354 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 23,821 ha Kankossa fire, 14 November 2025 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 23,660 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 1,077 ha Kankossa fire, 14 November 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,071 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 3,120 ha Kankossa fire, 13 November 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,106 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 1,724 ha Kankossa fire, 13 November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,716 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,656 ha Kankossa fire, 10 November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,648 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 2,423 ha Kankossa fire, 10 November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,403 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 3,673 ha Kankossa fire, 2 November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,574 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 1,711 ha Kankossa fire, 30 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,705 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 1,217 ha Kankossa fire, 28 October 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,211 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 1,246 ha Kankossa fire, 22 April 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,241 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 1,364 ha Kankossa fire, 9 April 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,355 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 2,114 ha Kankossa fire, 8 April 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,100 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 1,394 ha Kankossa fire, 31 December 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,388 ha in total · 1 day
  22. 1,670 ha Kankossa fire, 20 December 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,660 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 1,200 ha Kankossa fire, 26 November 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,195 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 1,525 ha Kankossa fire, 24 November 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,519 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 1,543 ha Kankossa fire, 21 November 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,637 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 2,464 ha Kankossa fire, March 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,454 ha in total · 2 days
  27. 1,089 ha Kankossa fire, 23 January 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,084 ha in total · 1 day
  28. 2,621 ha Kankossa fire, 23 January 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,609 ha in total · 1 day
  29. 6,047 ha Kankossa fire, November 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,334 ha in total · 4 days
  30. 1,414 ha Kankossa fire, March 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,407 ha in total · 1 day
  31. 1,776 ha Kankossa fire, January 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,770 ha in total · 2 days
  32. 1,128 ha Kankossa fire, 23 January 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,123 ha in total · 1 day
  33. 1,676 ha Kankossa fire, 22 January 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,668 ha in total · 1 day
  34. 2,759 ha Kankossa fire, 20 January 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,745 ha in total · 2 days
  35. 3,910 ha Kankossa fire, 20 January 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,890 ha in total · 2 days
  36. 1,950 ha Kankossa fire, 19 January 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,940 ha in total · 2 days
  37. 3,453 ha Kankossa fire, November 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,440 ha in total · 1 day
  38. 1,194 ha Kankossa fire, October 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,631 ha in total · 5 days
  39. 3,293 ha Kankossa fire, April 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,278 ha in total · 2 days
  40. 1,182 ha Kankossa fire, February 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,177 ha in total · 2 days
  41. 4,510 ha Kankossa fire, 6 December 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,489 ha in total · 3 days
  42. 1,132 ha Kankossa fire, 2 December 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,123 ha in total · 1 day
  43. 3,342 ha Kankossa fire, October 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,454 ha in total · 1 day
  44. 2,131 ha Kankossa fire, April 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,500 ha in total · 4 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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