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Wildfires in Bouinguel Bamba

Bouinguel Bamba, Senegal, has had 32 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 73,155 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 24% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 1 Low 34° · 42 % · 27 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Moderate 34° · 47 % · 21 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Moderate 34° · 41 % · 16 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Moderate 34° · 43 % · 18 km/h
  5. Thu 5 High 37° · 27 % · 21 km/h
  6. Fri 6 High 39° · 19 % · 39 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very high 40° · 18 % · 46 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very high 38° · 19 % · 38 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

73,155
hectares burned
24 %
of its area
32
fires
3,042
km²

How many times has Bouinguel Bamba burned?

Bouinguel Bamba has burned 32 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Dianké Makan fire, October 2026, with 38 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 73,155 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 60,417 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 6× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 6× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 9× 25
  11. 1× 26
32
fires
10
years with fire
73,155
cumulative ha
60,417
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 Bouinguel Bamba

  1. 38 ha Dianké Makan fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,277 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 42 ha Koulor fire, 19 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 2,296 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, 24 November 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,283 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 2,113 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, 15 November 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,263 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 2,748 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, 13 November 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,913 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 2,091 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, 2 November 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,076 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2,271 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, 2 November 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,259 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 10 ha Koulor fire, 22 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,412 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 4,649 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, October 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 4,620 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 1,727 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, February 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,909 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 989 ha Dianké Makan fire, 1 February 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 2,488 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 2,046 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, November 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,034 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 2,149 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, January 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,947 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 2,151 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, 11 November 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,138 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 9,286 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, 1 November 2022 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 9,228 ha in total · 16 days
  16. 3,363 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, November 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,342 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 4,005 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, 16 November 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,982 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 2,876 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, 4 November 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,858 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 2,767 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, 27 October 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,751 ha in total · 15 days
  20. 262 ha Kiniéba fire, 26 October 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 2,033 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 3,115 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, 26 October 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,103 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 2,089 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, 24 October 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,077 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 2,280 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, December 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,266 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 2,293 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, November 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,280 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 944 ha Koulor fire, 12 November 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 2,288 ha in total · 3 days
  26. 13 ha Dianké Makan fire, 1 April 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,560 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 1,434 ha Bala fire, January 2017 0.5% of the municipality · 4,721 ha in total · 9 days
  28. 2,325 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, 11 January 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,324 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 2,923 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, 1 January 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,907 ha in total · 9 days
  30. 1,279 ha Kiniéba fire, 28 December 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 5,550 ha in total · 5 days
  31. 107 ha Dianké Makan fire, April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,329 ha in total · 4 days
  32. 3,748 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, 18 March 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,814 ha in total · 4 days
  33. 2,768 ha Bouinguel Bamba fire, 14 March 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,752 ha in total · 5 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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