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Wildfires in Méhana

Méhana, Niger, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2024: 6,563 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 54).

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. Wed 28 Very high 39° · 17 % · 26 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Extreme 40° · 14 % · 32 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Extreme 39° · 13 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very high 39° · 12 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very high 39° · 13 % · 25 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very high 40° · 11 % · 27 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Extreme 41° · 7 % · 35 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very high 41° · 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

6,563
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
6
fires
414
km²

How many times has Méhana burned?

Méhana has burned 6 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kokorou fire, 2 February 2026, with 528 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,563 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,316 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 2× 26
6
fires
3
years with fire
6,563
cumulative ha
5,316
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 Méhana

  1. 528 ha Kokorou fire, 2 February 2026 1.3% of the municipality · 2,330 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 8 ha Kokorou fire, 25 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,374 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 563 ha Kokorou fire, 28 November 2025 1.4% of the municipality · 2,867 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 3,292 ha Bankilaré fire, 29 October 2025 8.0% of the municipality · 5,547 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 14 ha Bankilaré fire, 20 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,279 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 2,158 ha Méhana fire, December 2024 where it started 5.2% 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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