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Wildfires in Bankilaré

Bankilaré, Niger, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2024: 13,724 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 47).

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. Mon 26 Very high 38° · 14 % · 21 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very high 38° · 17 % · 26 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very high 38° · 23 % · 20 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very high 40° · 13 % · 22 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very high 39° · 12 % · 24 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very high 39° · 13 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very high 39° · 12 % · 25 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very high 39° · 11 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

13,724
hectares burned
9.6 %
of its area
6
fires
1,435
km²

How many times has Bankilaré burned?

Bankilaré has burned 6 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Bankilaré fire, 30 October 2025, with 2,893 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11.   26
6
fires
2
years with fire
13,724
cumulative ha
30 Oct 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 Niger →

Fires that entered Bankilaré

  1. 2,893 ha Bankilaré fire, 30 October 2025 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,874 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,318 ha Bankilaré fire, 29 October 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,547 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 3,574 ha Bankilaré fire, 29 October 2025 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 3,552 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 3,827 ha Gorouol fire, October 2025 2.7% of the municipality · 5,109 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,601 ha Bankilaré fire, 20 October 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,279 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 511 ha Méhana fire, December 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 4,043 ha in total · 3 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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