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Wildfires in Karantaba

Karantaba, Senegal, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 24,110 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 51% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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. Fri 23 Very low 35° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 34° · 63 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 33° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 34° · 57 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 33° · 58 % · 17 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 33° · 52 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 32° · 50 % · 20 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 73 % · 27 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

24,110
hectares burned
51 %
of its area
10
fires
468
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Karantaba

  1. 2,416 ha Simbandi Brassou fire, March 2026 5.2% of the municipality · 2,814 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 1,216 ha Karantaba fire, 10 March 2026 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,032 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 3,373 ha Karantaba fire, 8 March 2026 where it started 7.2% of the municipality · 3,353 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 2,207 ha Karantaba fire, April 2025 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 2,194 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 3,444 ha Karantaba fire, 14 February 2024 where it started 7.4% of the municipality · 3,423 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 1,022 ha Karantaba fire, 2 February 2024 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,231 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2,112 ha Karantaba fire, March 2023 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 2,099 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 3,320 ha Karantaba fire, March 2022 where it started 7.1% of the municipality · 6,318 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 2,379 ha Karantaba fire, 26 February 2019 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 2,364 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 2,620 ha Karantaba fire, 4 February 2019 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 2,605 ha in total · 6 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).