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Wildfires in Tarka

Tarka, Niger, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 23,200 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.5% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 64).

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 36° · 13 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 36° · 9 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 36° · 8 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 36° · 11 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Extreme 36° · 11 % · 33 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 37° · 12 % · 36 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 36° · 12 % · 46 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Extreme 36° · 13 % · 36 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

23,200
hectares burned
2.5 %
of its area
16
fires
9,231
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Tarka

  1. 1,024 ha Tarka fire, November 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,018 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 192 ha Tenhya fire, 22 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,075 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 3,324 ha Tarka fire, October 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,299 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,124 ha Tarka fire, 24 November 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,116 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 1,009 ha Aderbissinat fire, 15 November 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 3,962 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 2,779 ha Tarka fire, 6 November 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,784 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1,731 ha Tarka fire, 6 November 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,022 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 1,379 ha Tarka fire, 6 November 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,369 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 1,578 ha Aderbissinat fire, 6 November 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 2,303 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 1,233 ha Tarka fire, 3 November 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,223 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 1,298 ha Tarka fire, 3 November 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,288 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 771 ha Aderbissinat fire, October 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,573 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,162 ha Tarka fire, October 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,153 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 1,536 ha Tarka fire, November 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,527 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 1,199 ha Tarka fire, November 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,190 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 1,860 ha Tarka fire, February 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,847 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).