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Wildfires in Sindian

Sindian, Senegal, has had 31 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 84,776 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 57% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Fri 23 Very low 35° · 50 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 34° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 33° · 62 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 34° · 54 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 34° · 53 % · 19 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 33° · 56 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 32° · 54 % · 25 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 75 % · 32 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

84,776
hectares burned
57 %
of its area
31
fires
1,479
km²

How many times has Sindian burned?

Sindian has burned 31 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sindian fire, April 2026, with 2,968 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 84,776 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 45,812 hectares, 31 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 6× 21
  7. 6× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 5× 26
31
fires
11
years with fire
84,776
cumulative ha
45,812
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 Sindian

  1. 2,968 ha Sindian fire, April 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,957 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,499 ha Sindian fire, 18 February 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,534 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,770 ha Sindian fire, 14 February 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,837 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 13,067 ha Sindian fire, 12 February 2026 where it started 8.8% of the municipality · 12,988 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 2,216 ha Bona fire, February 2026 1.5% of the municipality · 25,642 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 3,350 ha Sindian fire, March 2025 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 3,330 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 247 ha Tanghori fire, February 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 2,305 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 529 ha Kataba1 fire, 8 March 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 2,246 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 54 ha Kataba1 fire, 2 March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 3,730 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 1,006 ha Bona fire, March 2023 0.7% of the municipality · 12,864 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 5,232 ha Sindian fire, March 2023 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 5,200 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 1,056 ha Bona fire, 6 March 2022 0.7% of the municipality · 4,919 ha in total · 10 days
  13. 2,359 ha Sindian fire, March 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,345 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 2,104 ha Sindian fire, 9 February 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,090 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 2,498 ha Sindian fire, 8 February 2022 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,572 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 7,583 ha Sindian fire, 7 February 2022 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 7,537 ha in total · 11 days
  17. 2,019 ha Sindian fire, January 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,068 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 3,585 ha Sindian fire, March 2021 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 3,563 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 2,059 ha Sindian fire, 23 February 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,045 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 3,730 ha Sindian fire, 23 February 2021 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 3,708 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 1,208 ha Sindian fire, 23 February 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,445 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 5,181 ha Sindian fire, 22 February 2021 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 5,149 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 326 ha Bona fire, 21 February 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 4,139 ha in total · 9 days
  24. 1,991 ha Sindian fire, 8 February 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,382 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 343 ha Sindian fire, 7 February 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,212 ha in total · 10 days
  26. 2,966 ha Sindian fire, January 2020 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,948 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 2,464 ha Sindian fire, March 2019 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,449 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 2,870 ha Sindian fire, January 2019 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,853 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 2,299 ha Sindian fire, March 2018 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,284 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 3,772 ha Sindian fire, February 2017 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 3,749 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 428 ha Sindian fire, April 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,024 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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