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Wildfires in Gueskérou

Gueskérou, Niger, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 20,093 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.9% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 56).

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 Extreme 37° · 9 % · 29 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Extreme 38° · 10 % · 32 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Extreme 38° · 11 % · 39 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Extreme 38° · 12 % · 37 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Extreme 38° · 12 % · 35 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Extreme 38° · 13 % · 38 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Extreme 39° · 11 % · 34 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Extreme 40° · 9 % · 34 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

20,093
hectares burned
7.9 %
of its area
19
fires
2,550
km²

How many times has Gueskérou burned?

Gueskérou has burned 19 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Gueskérou fire, November 2025, with 702 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 20,093 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 17,803 hectares, 7.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8.   23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11.   26
19
fires
6
years with fire
20,093
cumulative ha
17,803
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 Gueskérou

  1. 702 ha Gueskérou fire, November 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,565 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,220 ha Gueskérou fire, 25 October 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,212 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,400 ha Bosso fire, 22 October 2025 0.6% of the municipality · 2,391 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,242 ha Gueskérou fire, 18 October 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,234 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 1,562 ha Gueskérou fire, 22 November 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,552 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,105 ha Gueskérou fire, 16 November 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,098 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 1,268 ha Gueskérou fire, October 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,259 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 66 ha Toumour fire, October 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,020 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 1,362 ha Gueskérou fire, 24 November 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,353 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 1,254 ha Gueskérou fire, 14 November 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,246 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 1,079 ha Gueskérou fire, October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,072 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 606 ha Bosso fire, October 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 1,730 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 3,287 ha Gueskérou fire, October 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,264 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 79 ha Bosso fire, October 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,609 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 1,904 ha Gueskérou fire, October 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,891 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 106 ha N'Guigmi fire, October 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,006 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 532 ha Kabléwa fire, 6 November 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 1,924 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 1,136 ha Gueskérou fire, September 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,129 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 185 ha Bosso fire, September 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 6,427 ha in total · 5 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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