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Wildfires in Koubenni

Koubenni, Mauritania, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 18,815 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 98).

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 4 Extreme 38° · 16 % · 35 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very extreme 39° · 15 % · 50 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very extreme 38° · 17 % · 43 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very extreme 39° · 12 % · 44 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very extreme 37° · 11 % · 45 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very extreme 36° · 11 % · 40 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Extreme 36° · 11 % · 32 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Extreme 37° · 12 % · 23 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Koubenni: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

18,815
hectares burned
2.2 %
of its area
7
fires
8,685
km²

How many times has Koubenni burned?

Koubenni has burned 7 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Koubenni fire, November 2025, with 5,409 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 5× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
7
fires
3
years with fire
18,815
cumulative ha
1 Nov 2025
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 Koubenni

  1. 5,409 ha Koubenni fire, November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,378 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,112 ha Koubenni fire, November 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,106 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 3,880 ha Koubenni fire, 29 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,863 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 2,813 ha Koubenni fire, 13 April 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,796 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 2,506 ha Koubenni fire, March 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,654 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1,787 ha Koubenni fire, February 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,774 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1,309 ha Koubenni fire, January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,301 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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