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Wildfires in Koussanar

Koussanar, Senegal, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 10,782 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.4% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

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 28 High 35° · 21 % · 14 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 35 % · 18 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Moderate 32° · 56 % · 19 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 57 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 33° · 52 % · 25 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Low 32° · 60 % · 31 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Moderate 34° · 47 % · 31 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Moderate 36° · 41 % · 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

10,782
hectares burned
3.4 %
of its area
7
fires
3,173
km²

How many times has Koussanar burned?

Koussanar has burned 7 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Vélingara fire, 27 January 2026, with 614 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
7
fires
7
years with fire
10,782
cumulative ha
27 Jan 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 Koussanar

  1. 614 ha Vélingara fire, 27 January 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,194 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 3,632 ha Koussanar fire, February 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,610 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 2,151 ha Koussanar fire, April 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,136 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,755 ha Koussanar fire, December 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,628 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 2,148 ha Koussanar fire, December 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,137 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 402 ha Koulor fire, March 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 2,396 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 80 ha Makacoulibantang fire, January 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,396 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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