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Wildfires in Bonconto

Bonconto, Senegal, has had 39 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 124,349 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 43% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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. Sun 25 Low 35° · 49 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Moderate 35° · 39 % · 27 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 33° · 60 % · 18 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 33° · 49 % · 22 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 32° · 48 % · 22 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 68 % · 32 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 59 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 66 % · 40 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

124,349
hectares burned
43 %
of its area
39
fires
2,873
km²

How many times has Bonconto burned?

Bonconto has burned 39 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Bonconto fire, April 2026, with 2,458 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 124,349 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 95,066 hectares, 33 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 7× 25
  11. 8× 26
39
fires
10
years with fire
124,349
cumulative ha
95,066
distinct ha

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 Bonconto

  1. 2,458 ha Bonconto fire, April 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,446 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,521 ha Bonconto fire, March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,507 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 5,612 ha Missira fire, 25 February 2026 2.0% of the municipality · 5,591 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 2,396 ha Bonconto fire, 18 February 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,383 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 16,571 ha Bonconto fire, 12 February 2026 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 16,565 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 4,728 ha Bonconto fire, 28 January 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,719 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 5,422 ha Bonconto fire, 26 January 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 5,402 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 8,771 ha Bonconto fire, 25 January 2026 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 8,725 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 2,535 ha Bonconto fire, December 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,986 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 0 ha Missira fire, 23 December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 49,558 ha in total · 41 days
  11. 2,178 ha Bonconto fire, March 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,164 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 723 ha Sare Coly Sallé fire, February 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 2,834 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 2,358 ha Bonconto fire, February 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,346 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 116 ha Pakour fire, 22 February 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,112 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 2,162 ha Bonconto fire, January 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,152 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 4,198 ha Bonconto fire, March 2024 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 4,178 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 4,553 ha Bonconto fire, 26 February 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,531 ha in total · 11 days
  18. 2,847 ha Bonconto fire, 5 February 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,829 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 94 ha Sare Coly Sallé fire, March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,171 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 2,238 ha Bonconto fire, 28 February 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,224 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 2,861 ha Bonconto fire, 1 February 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,846 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 2,211 ha Bonconto fire, 29 January 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,199 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 2,123 ha Bonconto fire, 11 January 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,161 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 3,459 ha Bonconto fire, 28 March 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,621 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 2,097 ha Bonconto fire, 3 March 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,084 ha in total · 9 days
  26. 2,590 ha Bonconto fire, January 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,575 ha in total · 8 days
  27. 2,827 ha Bonconto fire, March 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,810 ha in total · 6 days
  28. 6,964 ha Bonconto fire, 22 February 2021 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 6,919 ha in total · 8 days
  29. 2,472 ha Bonconto fire, 13 February 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,461 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 2,110 ha Bonconto fire, April 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,222 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 2,048 ha Bonconto fire, March 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,037 ha in total · 2 days
  32. 2,283 ha Bonconto fire, 11 February 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,271 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 3,152 ha Bonconto fire, 6 February 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,137 ha in total · 11 days
  34. 3,161 ha Bonconto fire, March 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,143 ha in total · 3 days
  35. 2 ha Missira fire, 23 February 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 3,108 ha in total · 4 days
  36. 3,067 ha Bonconto fire, 10 February 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,053 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 2,964 ha Bonconto fire, 4 February 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,948 ha in total · 4 days
  38. 3,075 ha Bonconto fire, February 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,056 ha in total · 6 days
  39. 2,401 ha Bonconto fire, February 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,386 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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