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Wildfires in Fongolembi

Fongolembi, Senegal, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 5,567 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.2% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).

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. Wed 11 Moderate 33° · 43 % · 21 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Moderate 33° · 38 % · 16 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Moderate 33° · 44 % · 21 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Moderate 32° · 53 % · 23 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Low 33° · 47 % · 18 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Moderate 34° · 28 % · 32 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Moderate 33° · 29 % · 20 km/h
  8. Wed 18 High 34° · 34 % · 17 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Fongolembi: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

5,567
hectares burned
4.2 %
of its area
3
fires
1,315
km²

How many times has Fongolembi burned?

Fongolembi has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Fongolembi fire, November 2025, with 3,570 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
5,567
cumulative ha
22 Nov 2025
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 Fongolembi

  1. 3,570 ha Fongolembi fire, November 2025 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 3,626 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 13 ha Bembou fire, 3 December 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,478 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 1,984 ha Fongolembi fire, December 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,551 ha in total · 4 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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