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Wildfires in Dar Salam

Dar Salam, Senegal, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 388 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.3% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Mon 2 Very low 33° · 51 % · 16 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Low 33° · 48 % · 23 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Low 33° · 55 % · 17 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Low 33° · 60 % · 18 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Low 35° · 48 % · 17 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Low 36° · 39 % · 16 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Moderate 34° · 32 % · 22 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Moderate 34° · 34 % · 25 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

388
hectares burned
0.3 %
of its area
3
fires
1,188
km²

How many times has Dar Salam burned?

Dar Salam has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2021, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Missira fire, 9 January 2026, with 341 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
388
cumulative ha
9 Jan 2026
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 Dar Salam

  1. 341 ha Missira fire, 9 January 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 131,818 ha in total · 51 days
  2. 0 ha Bandafassi fire, 10 January 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 10,531 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 47 ha Bandafassi fire, 2 January 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,713 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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