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Wildfires in Fafacourou

Fafacourou, Senegal: 37 fires since 2016 burned 98,106 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.1 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 26 Moderate 36° · 40 % · 25 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 34° · 42 % · 14 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Moderate 33° · 36 % · 16 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Moderate 33° · 46 % · 19 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 61 % · 26 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 62 % · 40 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 59 % · 46 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Low 36° · 45 % · 19 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

98,106
hectares burned
1.1×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
37
fires
898
km²

How many times has Fafacourou burned?

Fafacourou has burned 37 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Fafacourou fire, April 2026, with 2,152 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 98,106 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 42,521 hectares, 47 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 7× 26
37
fires
11
years with fire
98,106
cumulative ha
42,521
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 Fafacourou

  1. 2,152 ha Fafacourou fire, April 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,139 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 5,051 ha Fafacourou fire, March 2026 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 5,143 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 3,344 ha Fafacourou fire, 22 February 2026 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 3,325 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 3,908 ha Fafacourou fire, 12 February 2026 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 3,884 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 315 ha Ndorna fire, 7 February 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 3,497 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 1,494 ha Fafacourou fire, 30 January 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,802 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 1,338 ha Fafacourou fire, 23 January 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,196 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 5,499 ha Fafacourou fire, February 2025 where it started 6.1% of the municipality · 5,884 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 2,238 ha Fafacourou fire, January 2024 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 3,312 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 5 ha Mampatim fire, March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,425 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 2,224 ha Fafacourou fire, 26 February 2023 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,211 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 3,458 ha Fafacourou fire, 13 February 2023 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 3,437 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 2,645 ha Fafacourou fire, January 2023 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 2,628 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 2,046 ha Fafacourou fire, 14 February 2022 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,034 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 1,907 ha Fafacourou fire, 10 February 2022 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,096 ha in total · 13 days
  16. 3,418 ha Fafacourou fire, 2 February 2022 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 5,316 ha in total · 10 days
  17. 1,418 ha Fafacourou fire, January 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,012 ha in total · 15 days
  18. 8,921 ha Fafacourou fire, 24 February 2021 where it started 9.9% of the municipality · 8,867 ha in total · 9 days
  19. 5,024 ha Fafacourou fire, 18 February 2021 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 8,892 ha in total · 17 days
  20. 2,606 ha Fafacourou fire, 19 February 2020 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 2,591 ha in total · 13 days
  21. 2 ha Mampatim fire, 7 February 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 4,463 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 1,525 ha Ndorna fire, February 2020 1.7% of the municipality · 7,782 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 5,866 ha Fafacourou fire, 5 February 2020 where it started 6.5% of the municipality · 5,830 ha in total · 14 days
  24. 2,978 ha Fafacourou fire, 2 February 2020 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 6,663 ha in total · 11 days
  25. 3,398 ha Fafacourou fire, April 2019 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 3,799 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 5,963 ha Fafacourou fire, 2 March 2019 where it started 6.6% of the municipality · 6,251 ha in total · 15 days
  27. 1,492 ha Fafacourou fire, 1 March 2019 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,361 ha in total · 8 days
  28. 932 ha Fafacourou fire, 17 February 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,189 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 1,973 ha Fafacourou fire, 5 February 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,180 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 35 ha Mampatim fire, April 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 3,017 ha in total · 11 days
  31. 1,988 ha Nianing fire, April 2018 2.2% of the municipality · 4,339 ha in total · 7 days
  32. 2,630 ha Fafacourou fire, March 2017 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 2,614 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 802 ha Fafacourou fire, February 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,168 ha in total · 6 days
  34. 2,112 ha Fafacourou fire, January 2017 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,969 ha in total · 12 days
  35. 56 ha Ndorna fire, March 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,487 ha in total · 13 days
  36. 5,172 ha Fafacourou fire, March 2016 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 5,139 ha in total · 7 days
  37. 2,172 ha Fafacourou fire, February 2016 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,159 ha in total · 7 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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