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Wildfires in Safo

Safo, Niger, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 3,357 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 41).

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 34° · 16 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 34° · 16 % · 29 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very high 34° · 18 % · 24 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very high 34° · 21 % · 17 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 18 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very high 36° · 16 % · 41 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very high 36° · 15 % · 32 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very high 36° · 14 % · 27 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

3,357
hectares burned
4.4 %
of its area
2
fires
755
km²

How many times has Safo burned?

Safo has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2025. The most recent: Safo fire, November 2025, with 1,268 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
3,357
cumulative ha
29 Nov 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 Safo

  1. 1,268 ha Safo fire, November 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,261 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,089 ha Safo fire, January 2020 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 2,211 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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