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Wildfires in Kataba1

Kataba1, Senegal, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 37,112 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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° · 52 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 34° · 60 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 35° · 56 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 34° · 60 % · 29 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 35° · 46 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 34° · 50 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 58 % · 23 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

37,112
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
14
fires
1,904
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kataba1

  1. 2,117 ha Kataba1 fire, 27 March 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,103 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 4,264 ha Kataba1 fire, 7 March 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 4,296 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,733 ha Kataba1 fire, 8 March 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,246 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 3,699 ha Kataba1 fire, 2 March 2023 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,730 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 2,285 ha Kataba1 fire, 7 April 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,270 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 4,811 ha Kataba1 fire, 2 April 2022 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 4,797 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,977 ha Kataba1 fire, March 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,957 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 2,806 ha Kataba1 fire, 9 February 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,786 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 406 ha Sindian fire, 8 February 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 2,382 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 2,053 ha Kataba1 fire, 7 February 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,039 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 2,660 ha Kataba1 fire, February 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,642 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 2,108 ha Kataba1 fire, 19 March 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,277 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 3,583 ha Kataba1 fire, 18 March 2017 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,560 ha in total · 14 days
  14. 1,609 ha Sindian fire, April 2016 0.8% of the municipality · 2,024 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).