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Wildfires in Sanam

Sanam, Niger, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 14,844 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.7% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 59).

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 39° · 9 % · 44 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 39° · 9 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 38° · 9 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 38° · 10 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Extreme 38° · 11 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 38° · 11 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 38° · 10 % · 27 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Extreme 38° · 11 % · 32 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

14,844
hectares burned
2.7 %
of its area
9
fires
5,599
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Sanam

  1. 2,163 ha Sanam fire, February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,864 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,366 ha Sanam fire, 16 November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,355 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 2,359 ha Sanam fire, 16 November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,766 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,065 ha Sanam fire, 16 November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,057 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 3,908 ha Sanam fire, October 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,881 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 804 ha Sanam fire, November 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,055 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1,211 ha Sanam fire, February 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,274 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 1,365 ha Sanam fire, December 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,354 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 602 ha Sanam fire, October 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,038 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).