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Wildfires in Katakel

Katakel, Senegal, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2016: 2,294 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.9% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

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 High 40° · 22 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 38° · 41 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 37° · 35 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 39° · 21 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 39° · 20 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 37° · 11 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 36° · 15 % · 23 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 35° · 47 % · 32 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

2,294
hectares burned
1.9 %
of its area
1
fires
1,240
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Katakel

  1. 2,294 ha Katakel fire, April 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,869 ha in total · 2 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).