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Wildfires in Banibangou

Banibangou, Niger, has had 42 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 57,746 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 50).

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 Very high 38° · 11 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 39° · 9 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Extreme 38° · 15 % · 38 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very high 38° · 18 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very high 38° · 16 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very high 38° · 13 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Extreme 39° · 10 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Extreme 39° · 9 % · 30 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

57,746
hectares burned
8.9 %
of its area
42
fires
6,485
km²

How many times has Banibangou burned?

Banibangou has burned 42 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Banibangou fire, 25 February 2026, with 1,090 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 57,746 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 48,812 hectares, 7.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 6× 21
  7. 11× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 7× 25
  11. 2× 26
42
fires
10
years with fire
57,746
cumulative ha
48,812
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 Niger →

Fires that entered Banibangou

  1. 1,090 ha Banibangou fire, 25 February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,403 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,080 ha Banibangou fire, 14 February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,074 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 36 ha Dingazi fire, December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,494 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,030 ha Banibangou fire, 23 November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,024 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 1,529 ha Banibangou fire, 14 November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,521 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,228 ha Banibangou fire, 9 November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,222 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 2,035 ha Banibangou fire, 28 October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,022 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 1,611 ha Banibangou fire, 27 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,601 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 1,845 ha Banibangou fire, 20 October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,833 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 1,240 ha Banibangou fire, December 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,232 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 1,164 ha Banibangou fire, 22 January 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,157 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 1,080 ha Banibangou fire, 16 January 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,074 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,898 ha Banibangou fire, 21 November 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,885 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 1,488 ha Banibangou fire, 19 November 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,479 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 1,011 ha Banibangou fire, 23 October 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,004 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 1,013 ha Banibangou fire, 23 October 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,006 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 1,096 ha Banibangou fire, March 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,090 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 1,199 ha Banibangou fire, 16 November 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,191 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 1,544 ha Banibangou fire, 16 November 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,533 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 1,219 ha Banibangou fire, 10 November 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,211 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 1,248 ha Banibangou fire, October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,240 ha in total · 1 day
  22. 113 ha Banibangou fire, May 2022 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,013 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 2,236 ha Banibangou fire, March 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,222 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 973 ha Banibangou fire, 22 February 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,215 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 1,104 ha Banibangou fire, 12 February 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,098 ha in total · 1 day
  26. 1,601 ha Banibangou fire, 7 February 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,593 ha in total · 2 days
  27. 1,576 ha Banibangou fire, 30 January 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,565 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 1,008 ha Banibangou fire, 25 January 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,001 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 1,297 ha Banibangou fire, 24 November 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,289 ha in total · 2 days
  30. 1,306 ha Banibangou fire, 24 November 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,298 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 4,003 ha Banibangou fire, 12 October 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,975 ha in total · 2 days
  32. 2,559 ha Banibangou fire, 12 October 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,542 ha in total · 1 day
  33. 1,306 ha Banibangou fire, February 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,299 ha in total · 1 day
  34. 1,498 ha Banibangou fire, January 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,490 ha in total · 3 days
  35. 1,313 ha Banibangou fire, November 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,304 ha in total · 2 days
  36. 1,120 ha Banibangou fire, October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,112 ha in total · 1 day
  37. 1,453 ha Banibangou fire, February 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,444 ha in total · 1 day
  38. 1,251 ha Banibangou fire, October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,244 ha in total · 1 day
  39. 1,341 ha Banibangou fire, 6 April 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,332 ha in total · 2 days
  40. 1,783 ha Banibangou fire, 6 April 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,771 ha in total · 1 day
  41. 698 ha Banibangou fire, 26 October 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,480 ha in total · 2 days
  42. 1,524 ha Banibangou fire, 12 October 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,514 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from OCHA COD-AB/IGNN (Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-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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