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Wildfires in Sélibabi

Sélibabi, Mauritania, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 12,417 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 96).

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. Fri 6 Very extreme 40° · 14 % · 44 km/h
  2. Sat 7 Very extreme 39° · 14 % · 53 km/h
  3. Sun 8 Very extreme 38° · 13 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 9 Very extreme 37° · 11 % · 45 km/h
  5. Tue 10 Extreme 37° · 10 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 11 Extreme 38° · 11 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 12 Extreme 38° · 9 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 13 Extreme 39° · 12 % · 26 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 Sélibabi: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

12,417
hectares burned
3.2 %
of its area
11
fires
3,886
km²

How many times has Sélibabi burned?

Sélibabi has burned 11 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sélibabi fire, February 2026, with 1,020 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,417 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,492 hectares, 2.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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  7. 3× 22
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  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
11
fires
5
years with fire
12,417
cumulative ha
9,492
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 Sélibabi

  1. 1,020 ha Sélibabi fire, February 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,014 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,120 ha Sélibabi fire, January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,115 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,197 ha Sélibabi fire, March 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,190 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,458 ha Maghama fire, 1 December 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 3,795 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 700 ha Maghama fire, April 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 2,042 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,281 ha Sélibabi fire, 29 May 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,275 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1,849 ha Sélibabi fire, 18 May 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,839 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 675 ha Maghama fire, 29 January 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 4,384 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,116 ha Sélibabi fire, December 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,111 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 901 ha Maghama fire, March 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 2,239 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 1,101 ha Sélibabi fire, March 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,095 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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