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Wildfires in Barkédji

Barkédji, Senegal, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 6,168 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.0% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 25).

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. Sat 24 High 38° · 25 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 38° · 31 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 38° · 19 % · 32 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 37° · 16 % · 27 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 36° · 13 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 36° · 14 % · 22 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 35° · 27 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 35° · 39 % · 24 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

6,168
hectares burned
1.0 %
of its area
2
fires
6,156
km²

How many times has Barkédji burned?

Barkédji has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2017. The most recent: Barkédji fire, April 2017, with 4,719 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
6,168
cumulative ha
10 Apr 2017
most recent

Fires larger than 2,000 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 Senegal →

Fires that entered Barkédji

  1. 4,719 ha Barkédji fire, April 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,698 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,450 ha Vélingara fire, February 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 4,228 ha in total · 3 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).

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