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Wildfires in Bona

Bona, Senegal, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 75,434 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 93% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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 35° · 52 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 34° · 67 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 33° · 65 % · 16 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 34° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 34° · 53 % · 19 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 34° · 49 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 32° · 67 % · 22 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 74 % · 37 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

75,434
hectares burned
93 %
of its area
15
fires
813
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Bona

  1. 8 ha Sindian fire, April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,957 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 21,900 ha Bona fire, February 2026 where it started 27% of the municipality · 25,642 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 7,809 ha Bona fire, January 2026 where it started 9.6% of the municipality · 7,769 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 2,976 ha Bona fire, 22 February 2025 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 2,958 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 7,423 ha Bona fire, 17 February 2025 where it started 9.1% of the municipality · 7,378 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 11,938 ha Bona fire, March 2023 where it started 15% of the municipality · 12,864 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 3,009 ha Bona fire, 14 March 2022 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 2,991 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 3,894 ha Bona fire, 6 March 2022 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 4,919 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 91 ha Sindian fire, 8 February 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 2,572 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 2,161 ha Bona fire, February 2022 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,148 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 3,618 ha Bona fire, 21 February 2021 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 4,139 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 2,246 ha Bona fire, 11 February 2021 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 2,232 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 2,199 ha Bogal fire, January 2019 2.7% of the municipality · 3,848 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 2,829 ha Bona fire, December 2018 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 2,811 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 3,334 ha Bona fire, January 2018 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 3,314 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).