Wildfires in Bandafassi

Name: Bandafassi
Address: SN

Bandafassi, Senegal: 117 fires since 2016 burned 659,528 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.1 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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

Thu 22 Very low 34° · 48 % · 17 km/h
Fri 23 Very low 35° · 53 % · 18 km/h
Sat 24 Low 35° · 47 % · 18 km/h
Sun 25 Low 34° · 58 % · 23 km/h
Mon 26 Low 34° · 51 % · 21 km/h
Tue 27 Low 34° · 48 % · 15 km/h
Wed 28 Low 33° · 43 % · 26 km/h
Thu 29 Low 33° · 59 % · 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.

Since 2016

659,528
hectares burned: 1.1×
times its area (some ground burned more than once): 117
fires: 5,796
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Bandafassi

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).

Fire danger, today and the coming days

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

Hectares per year

Fires that entered Bandafassi

Where this data comes from