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Wildfires in Koulor

Koulor, Senegal, has had 54 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 136,885 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 21).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out 3 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 29 High 35° · 28 % · 18 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Moderate 36° · 36 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sat 31 High 34° · 37 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sun 1 High 36° · 32 % · 21 km/h
  5. Mon 2 High 37° · 25 % · 28 km/h
  6. Tue 3 High 37° · 25 % · 30 km/h
  7. Wed 4 High 36° · 22 % · 29 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very high 38° · 17 % · 38 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

136,885
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
54
fires
6,818
km²

How many times has Koulor burned?

Koulor has burned 54 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Koulor fire, 23 October 2026, with 2,072 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 9× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6.   21
  7. 11× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 16× 25
  11. 2× 26
54
fires
10
years with fire
136,885
cumulative ha
23 Oct 2026
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 Koulor

  1. 2,072 ha Koulor fire, 23 October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,063 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,680 ha Koulor fire, 22 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 1,246 ha Koulor fire, 21 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 2,030 ha Koulor fire, 19 October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 4,806 ha Koulor fire, February 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,774 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 3,596 ha Koulor fire, December 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,575 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 2,661 ha Koulor fire, 14 November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,647 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 3,121 ha Koulor fire, 2 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,102 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 3,095 ha Koulor fire, 1 November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,074 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 2,741 ha Koulor fire, 1 November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,723 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 5,289 ha Koulor fire, 29 October 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,264 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 2,360 ha Koulor fire, 23 October 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,347 ha in total · 12 days
  13. 1,965 ha Bellé fire, 23 October 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 2,980 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 2,886 ha Koulor fire, 23 October 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,870 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 1,184 ha Koulor fire, 22 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,196 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 2,414 ha Koulor fire, 22 October 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,412 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 3,002 ha Koulor fire, 22 October 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,988 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 1,990 ha Bellé fire, 21 October 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 2,445 ha in total · 11 days
  19. 2,076 ha Koulor fire, 21 October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,063 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 3,961 ha Koulor fire, 16 October 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,939 ha in total · 19 days
  21. 2,428 ha Koulor fire, February 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,414 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 1,924 ha Koulor fire, October 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,041 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 2,956 ha Koulor fire, 11 November 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,942 ha in total · 7 days
  24. 2,284 ha Koulor fire, 5 November 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,272 ha in total · 12 days
  25. 2,387 ha Koulor fire, 3 November 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,374 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 4,243 ha Koulor fire, 2 November 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,221 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 2,132 ha Koulor fire, 2 November 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,119 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 2,290 ha Koulor fire, 1 November 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,275 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 3,152 ha Koulor fire, 30 October 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,133 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 2,207 ha Koulor fire, 30 October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,191 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 1,304 ha Koulor fire, 27 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,171 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 3,186 ha Koulor fire, 27 October 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,164 ha in total · 9 days
  33. 2,138 ha Koulor fire, 26 October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,125 ha in total · 9 days
  34. 3,629 ha Koulor fire, 26 October 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,609 ha in total · 17 days
  35. 2,898 ha Koulor fire, March 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,881 ha in total · 4 days
  36. 2,034 ha Koulor fire, 20 October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,023 ha in total · 11 days
  37. 2,677 ha Sinthiou Banambe/Wouro Sidy fire, 19 October 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 5,722 ha in total · 15 days
  38. 2,869 ha Koulor fire, 18 October 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,854 ha in total · 8 days
  39. 2,242 ha Koulor fire, 18 October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,230 ha in total · 6 days
  40. 2,724 ha Koulor fire, 15 October 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,706 ha in total · 9 days
  41. 1,354 ha Koulor fire, November 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,324 ha in total · 8 days
  42. 3,610 ha Koulor fire, October 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,588 ha in total · 3 days
  43. 3,763 ha Koulor fire, April 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,739 ha in total · 3 days
  44. 2,586 ha Koulor fire, March 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,570 ha in total · 4 days
  45. 3,138 ha Koulor fire, February 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,121 ha in total · 3 days
  46. 2,004 ha Koulor fire, March 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,396 ha in total · 2 days
  47. 1,751 ha Koulor fire, 21 November 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,052 ha in total · 4 days
  48. 1,356 ha Koulor fire, 12 November 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,288 ha in total · 3 days
  49. 2,492 ha Koulor fire, 24 October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,476 ha in total · 2 days
  50. 2,090 ha Koulor fire, 21 October 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,078 ha in total · 1 day
  51. 2,437 ha Koulor fire, 19 October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,422 ha in total · 7 days
  52. 2,051 ha Koulor fire, 19 October 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,038 ha in total · 7 days
  53. 787 ha Bellé fire, March 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,194 ha in total · 2 days
  54. 0 ha Sinthiou Banambe/Wouro Sidy fire, January 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,345 ha in total · 2 days
  55. 2,032 ha Bala fire, January 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 4,721 ha in total · 9 days
  56. 2,230 ha Koulor fire, April 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,216 ha in total · 3 days
  57. 2,277 ha Koulor fire, January 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,263 ha in total · 3 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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