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Wildfires in Thille Boubakar

Thille Boubakar, Senegal, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 4,767 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 70).

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 Extreme 38° · 13 % · 35 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Very extreme 37° · 16 % · 41 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Extreme 37° · 12 % · 29 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Very high 38° · 12 % · 18 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Extreme 37° · 16 % · 28 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Extreme 37° · 18 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Extreme 38° · 19 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Extreme 38° · 18 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Thille Boubakar: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

4,767
hectares burned
1.5 %
of its area
2
fires
3,219
km²

How many times has Thille Boubakar burned?

Thille Boubakar has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2025. The most recent: Thille Boubakar fire, October 2025, with 3,779 hectares inside the municipality.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
4,767
cumulative ha
29 Oct 2025
most recent

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 Thille Boubakar

  1. 3,779 ha Thille Boubakar fire, October 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,757 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 988 ha Gamadji Sarre fire, November 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 2,621 ha in total · 1 day

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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