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Wildfires in Bembou

Bembou, Senegal, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 20,153 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.6% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 Low 36° · 45 % · 16 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 34° · 51 % · 16 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 34° · 50 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 34° · 43 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 34° · 34 % · 16 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 32° · 41 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 33° · 54 % · 23 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 32° · 58 % · 27 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

20,153
hectares burned
5.6 %
of its area
11
fires
3,616
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Bembou

  1. 2,695 ha Bembou fire, January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,063 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 3,300 ha Bembou fire, 24 December 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,277 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 2,265 ha Bembou fire, 24 December 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,249 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 0 ha Sabodala fire, December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,148 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 907 ha Sabodala fire, 29 December 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 2,714 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 2,629 ha Bembou fire, 20 December 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,648 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 2,494 ha Bembou fire, 8 December 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,478 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 2,402 ha Bembou fire, 15 December 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,386 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 525 ha Sabodala fire, 13 December 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 2,024 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 2,353 ha Bembou fire, 6 December 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,478 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 583 ha Fongolembi fire, December 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 2,551 ha in total · 4 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).