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Wildfires in Mampatim

Mampatim, Senegal, has had 45 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 101,632 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 41% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Sun 25 Low 34° · 58 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 35° · 50 % · 20 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 33° · 58 % · 21 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 33° · 48 % · 18 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 32° · 51 % · 17 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 66 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 62 % · 33 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 54 % · 35 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

101,632
hectares burned
41 %
of its area
45
fires
2,465
km²

How many times has Mampatim burned?

Mampatim has burned 45 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Mampatim fire, 9 March 2026, with 1,983 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 101,632 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 67,588 hectares, 27 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 7× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 6× 24
  10.   25
  11. 11× 26
45
fires
10
years with fire
101,632
cumulative ha
67,588
distinct ha

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 Mampatim

  1. 1,983 ha Mampatim fire, 9 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,422 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 2,201 ha Mampatim fire, 4 March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,189 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,671 ha Mampatim fire, 17 February 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,654 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 3 ha Pakour fire, 17 February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,110 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 3,748 ha Mampatim fire, 17 February 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,724 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 2,752 ha Mampatim fire, 16 February 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,784 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 65 ha Ndorna fire, 28 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,273 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 4,330 ha Mampatim fire, 28 January 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,312 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 1,664 ha Mampatim fire, 24 January 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,142 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 304 ha Fafacourou fire, 23 January 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,196 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 0 ha Ndorna fire, 18 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,693 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 366 ha Sare Coly Sallé fire, February 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 2,089 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 2,015 ha Mampatim fire, 14 February 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,003 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 3,235 ha Mampatim fire, 11 February 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,216 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 2,599 ha Mampatim fire, 21 January 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,702 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 2,323 ha Mampatim fire, 6 January 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,308 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 2,255 ha Mampatim fire, 4 January 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,241 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 2,436 ha Mampatim fire, March 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,425 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 3,669 ha Mampatim fire, February 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,646 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 2,245 ha Mampatim fire, 10 February 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,232 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 4,264 ha Mampatim fire, 9 February 2022 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,292 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 51 ha Fafacourou fire, 2 February 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 5,316 ha in total · 10 days
  23. 3,064 ha Mampatim fire, 22 February 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,047 ha in total · 10 days
  24. 742 ha Sare Coly Sallé fire, 22 February 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 3,278 ha in total · 6 days
  25. 2,112 ha Mampatim fire, 12 February 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,098 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 4,490 ha Mampatim fire, 9 February 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,463 ha in total · 6 days
  27. 2,738 ha Mampatim fire, 6 February 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,723 ha in total · 10 days
  28. 512 ha Sare Coly Sallé fire, February 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 2,062 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 2,090 ha Mampatim fire, 31 January 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,077 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 2,358 ha Mampatim fire, 30 January 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,345 ha in total · 3 days
  31. 3,890 ha Mampatim fire, March 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,864 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 2,313 ha Mampatim fire, 26 February 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,300 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 2,431 ha Mampatim fire, 24 February 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,417 ha in total · 6 days
  34. 4,108 ha Mampatim fire, 22 February 2019 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,083 ha in total · 8 days
  35. 913 ha Fafacourou fire, 17 February 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 2,189 ha in total · 2 days
  36. 4,359 ha Mampatim fire, 9 February 2019 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,334 ha in total · 7 days
  37. 2,406 ha Mampatim fire, January 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,391 ha in total · 3 days
  38. 3,002 ha Mampatim fire, April 2018 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,017 ha in total · 8 days
  39. 2,808 ha Mampatim fire, April 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,789 ha in total · 6 days
  40. 2,824 ha Mampatim fire, March 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,807 ha in total · 6 days
  41. 185 ha Pakour fire, February 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,177 ha in total · 5 days
  42. 2,353 ha Mampatim fire, February 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,340 ha in total · 3 days
  43. 665 ha Fafacourou fire, February 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 2,168 ha in total · 6 days
  44. 3,357 ha Mampatim fire, March 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,443 ha in total · 6 days
  45. 2,728 ha Mampatim fire, January 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,710 ha in total · 5 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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