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Wildfires in Dessa

Dessa, Niger, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 22,361 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 44% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 46).

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 23 Extreme 40° · 8 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 40° · 9 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 39° · 9 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 38° · 11 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 38° · 12 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 38° · 17 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 39° · 12 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 40° · 10 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

22,361
hectares burned
44 %
of its area
11
fires
511
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Dessa

  1. 4,072 ha Dessa fire, October 2026 where it started 8.0% of the municipality · 4,757 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 5,914 ha Dessa fire, December 2025 where it started 12% of the municipality · 9,984 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 942 ha Bankilaré fire, 29 October 2025 1.8% of the municipality · 5,547 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 276 ha Ayérou fire, 26 October 2025 0.5% of the municipality · 1,872 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 21 ha Gorouol fire, October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 5,109 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 48 ha Anzourou fire, December 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 1,313 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 151 ha Méhana fire, December 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 4,043 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 8,073 ha Dessa fire, November 2024 where it started 16% of the municipality · 13,729 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 302 ha Anzourou fire, November 2023 0.6% of the municipality · 1,120 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 1,386 ha Dessa fire, 16 October 2023 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 1,378 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 1,175 ha Dessa fire, 15 October 2023 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,178 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 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).