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Wildfires in Bala

Bala, Senegal, has had 23 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 57,693 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

Only fires of 2,000 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 Moderate 38° · 36 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 36° · 47 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 37° · 36 % · 24 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 39° · 21 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 38° · 16 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 36° · 14 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 36° · 25 % · 20 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 36° · 38 % · 22 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

57,693
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
23
fires
2,834
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Bala

  1. 2,806 ha Bala fire, March 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,356 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 3,296 ha Bala fire, 27 February 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,275 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 2,253 ha Bala fire, 15 February 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,241 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 2,313 ha Bala fire, 29 January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,302 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 2,063 ha Bala fire, 12 January 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,051 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 2,235 ha Bala fire, 31 October 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,220 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 4,965 ha Bala fire, 26 October 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,932 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 2,662 ha Bala fire, April 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,648 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 2,789 ha Bala fire, April 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,775 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 1,330 ha Dianké Makan fire, 3 March 2023 0.5% of the municipality · 2,410 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 3,434 ha Bala fire, November 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,472 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 5,183 ha Bala fire, February 2021 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 5,156 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 2,345 ha Bala fire, November 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,331 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 3,367 ha Bala fire, October 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,344 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 2,526 ha Bala fire, April 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,510 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 393 ha Dianké Makan fire, March 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 2,175 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 2,200 ha Bala fire, February 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,187 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 2,066 ha Bala fire, December 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,054 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 3,649 ha Bala fire, May 2018 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,627 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 399 ha Missira fire, 12 April 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,166 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 1,283 ha Bala fire, January 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,721 ha in total · 9 days
  22. 2,086 ha Bala fire, February 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,075 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 2,049 ha Bala fire, January 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,036 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 geoBoundaries/Government of Senegal, OCHA ROWCA (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).