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Wildfires in Orkadiere

Orkadiere, Senegal, has had 23 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 73,929 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 22).

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. Sat 31 High 33° · 40 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 1 High 34° · 34 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 2 High 35° · 29 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 3 High 35° · 28 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 4 High 36° · 27 % · 24 km/h
  6. Thu 5 High 38° · 22 % · 28 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very high 38° · 21 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very high 38° · 24 % · 41 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

73,929
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
23
fires
2,577
km²

How many times has Orkadiere burned?

Orkadiere has burned 23 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Orkadiere fire, 16 February 2026, with 8,671 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 73,929 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 54,141 hectares, 21 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 7× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 3× 26
23
fires
11
years with fire
73,929
cumulative ha
54,141
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 Orkadiere

  1. 8,671 ha Orkadiere fire, 16 February 2026 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 8,716 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 2,933 ha Orkadiere fire, 15 February 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,916 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 2,134 ha Orkadiere fire, January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,122 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,977 ha Sinthiou Banambe/Wouro Sidy fire, 14 November 2025 0.8% of the municipality · 4,874 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 4,553 ha Orkadiere fire, 31 October 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,529 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 3,625 ha Orkadiere fire, 29 October 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,672 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 90 ha Sinthiou Banambe/Wouro Sidy fire, 14 March 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,919 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 2,072 ha Orkadiere fire, November 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,059 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 3,140 ha Orkadiere fire, October 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,122 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 7,572 ha Orkadiere fire, 31 October 2022 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 7,533 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 4,008 ha Orkadiere fire, 31 October 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,987 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 3,356 ha Orkadiere fire, 29 October 2022 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,340 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 2,280 ha Orkadiere fire, 29 October 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,268 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 879 ha Koulor fire, 27 October 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 2,171 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 7,644 ha Orkadiere fire, March 2022 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 7,607 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 4,031 ha Orkadiere fire, January 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,008 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 2,261 ha Orkadiere fire, March 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,249 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 2,956 ha Orkadiere fire, October 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,941 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 984 ha Koulor fire, November 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 2,324 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 2,682 ha Orkadiere fire, March 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,667 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 314 ha Koulor fire, 21 November 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,052 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 2,944 ha Orkadiere fire, February 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,927 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 2,824 ha Orkadiere fire, November 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,810 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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