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Wildfires in Sabodala

Sabodala, Senegal, has had 21 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 29,668 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.0% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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 Moderate 37° · 32 % · 18 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Moderate 36° · 27 % · 31 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Moderate 35° · 34 % · 16 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 31 % · 25 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Moderate 35° · 29 % · 23 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 40 % · 29 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 54 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 35° · 33 % · 25 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

29,668
hectares burned
7.0 %
of its area
21
fires
4,241
km²

How many times has Sabodala burned?

Sabodala has burned 21 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Dianké Makan fire, February 2026, with 1,256 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 29,668 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 27,192 hectares, 6.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 5× 26
21
fires
9
years with fire
29,668
cumulative ha
27,192
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 Sabodala

  1. 1,256 ha Dianké Makan fire, February 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 9,877 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 22 ha Bandafassi fire, 6 February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,844 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 5 ha Missira fire, 28 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,219 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 229 ha Bandafassi fire, 13 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,658 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 0 ha Bandafassi fire, 10 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,578 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 2,159 ha Sabodala fire, December 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,148 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 38 ha Dianké Makan fire, 24 November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,087 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 3,150 ha Sabodala fire, 20 November 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,133 ha in total · 18 days
  9. 2,094 ha Sabodala fire, 6 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,082 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 11 ha Bandafassi fire, March 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,633 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 1,823 ha Sabodala fire, 27 December 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,714 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 2,537 ha Sabodala fire, 25 December 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,675 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 2,693 ha Sabodala fire, 11 December 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,676 ha in total · 12 days
  14. 37 ha Bembou fire, 14 December 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,648 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 3,164 ha Sabodala fire, 19 December 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,145 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 2,478 ha Sabodala fire, 13 December 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,463 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 1,511 ha Sabodala fire, 6 December 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,024 ha in total · 14 days
  18. 2,122 ha Sabodala fire, November 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,109 ha in total · 11 days
  19. 2,269 ha Sabodala fire, December 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,257 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 55 ha Dianké Makan fire, March 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,180 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 2,014 ha Sabodala fire, December 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,003 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).

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