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Wildfires in Tanghori

Tanghori, Senegal, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 11,384 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 8 Low 34° · 56 % · 19 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Low 33° · 47 % · 21 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Low 33° · 48 % · 20 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Low 32° · 54 % · 16 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Low 33° · 43 % · 18 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Low 34° · 39 % · 16 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Low 34° · 60 % · 20 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Moderate 34° · 49 % · 20 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Tanghori: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

11,384
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
5
fires
1,068
km²

How many times has Tanghori burned?

Tanghori has burned 5 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Tanghori fire, March 2025, with 2,989 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 11,384 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,306 hectares, 6.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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5
fires
5
years with fire
11,384
cumulative ha
7,306
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 Tanghori

  1. 2,989 ha Tanghori fire, March 2025 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 2,971 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 2,073 ha Tanghori fire, February 2024 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,305 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 1,251 ha Sindian fire, 23 February 2021 1.2% of the municipality · 2,445 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 2,888 ha Sindian fire, 1 February 2020 2.7% of the municipality · 3,212 ha in total · 21 days
  5. 2,182 ha Tanghori fire, March 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,169 ha in total · 11 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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