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Wildfires in Djibabouya

Djibabouya, Senegal, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 10,505 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 1 Very low 33° · 49 % · 22 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 69 % · 36 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 54 % · 23 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 57 % · 16 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Low 34° · 49 % · 16 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Low 35° · 41 % · 23 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Low 36° · 46 % · 18 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Low 34° · 60 % · 18 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

10,505
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
4
fires
685
km²

How many times has Djibabouya burned?

Djibabouya has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2023. The most recent: Djibabouya fire, March 2023, with 2,835 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,505 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,158 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
4
years with fire
10,505
cumulative ha
9,158
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 Djibabouya

  1. 2,835 ha Djibabouya fire, March 2023 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 2,817 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 4,775 ha Djibabouya fire, January 2020 where it started 7.0% of the municipality · 4,747 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 2,851 ha Diendé fire, 11 February 2019 4.2% of the municipality · 5,556 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 44 ha Diaroumé fire, 14 January 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 2,198 ha in total · 10 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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