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Wildfires in Kiffa

Kiffa, Mauritania, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 1,842 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.2% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 60).

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 Extreme 42° · 9 % · 41 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Extreme 41° · 10 % · 46 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Extreme 38° · 12 % · 46 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Extreme 36° · 8 % · 37 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Extreme 35° · 10 % · 36 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Extreme 36° · 11 % · 32 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very high 37° · 11 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Extreme 38° · 14 % · 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

1,842
hectares burned
0.2 %
of its area
2
fires
12,215
km²

How many times has Kiffa burned?

Kiffa has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Tintane fire, January 2026, with 583 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
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  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,842
cumulative ha
25 Jan 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 Kiffa

  1. 583 ha Tintane fire, January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,703 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,260 ha Kiffa fire, November 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,256 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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