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Wildfires in Maghama

Maghama, Mauritania, has had 21 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 38,914 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% 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. Wed 28 High 37° · 13 % · 27 km/h
  2. Thu 29 High 36° · 18 % · 23 km/h
  3. Fri 30 High 34° · 33 % · 17 km/h
  4. Sat 31 High 34° · 35 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sun 1 High 36° · 26 % · 27 km/h
  6. Mon 2 High 36° · 29 % · 33 km/h
  7. Tue 3 High 37° · 31 % · 35 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

38,914
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
21
fires
2,307
km²

How many times has Maghama burned?

Maghama has burned 21 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Maghama fire, 16 March 2026, with 5,460 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 38,914 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 31,375 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 7× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 5× 26
21
fires
6
years with fire
38,914
cumulative ha
31,375
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 Maghama

  1. 5,460 ha Maghama fire, 16 March 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 5,426 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,260 ha Maghama fire, 16 March 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,247 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1,473 ha Maghama fire, 14 February 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,466 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 2,251 ha Maghama fire, 9 February 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,240 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 1,089 ha Maghama fire, January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,084 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1,239 ha Maghama fire, December 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,233 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1,113 ha Maghama fire, 1 December 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,108 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 2,353 ha Maghama fire, 1 December 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,795 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 1,351 ha Maghama fire, April 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,042 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 1,590 ha Maghama fire, May 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,582 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 2,164 ha Maghama fire, February 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,154 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 770 ha Kaédi fire, 13 February 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 2,818 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 409 ha Kaédi fire, 13 February 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 1,445 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 949 ha Kaédi fire, 13 February 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 2,219 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 3,730 ha Maghama fire, 29 January 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,384 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 1,383 ha Maghama fire, 17 January 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,374 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 1,466 ha Maghama fire, 11 November 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,456 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 3,242 ha Maghama fire, 11 November 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,221 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 1,356 ha Maghama fire, 5 November 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,347 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 1,349 ha Maghama fire, March 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,239 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 1,919 ha Maghama fire, January 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,908 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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