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Wildfires in Toubakouta

Toubakouta, Senegal, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 13,768 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 Very low 33° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 33° · 48 % · 17 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 33° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Low 34° · 44 % · 24 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Moderate 37° · 31 % · 27 km/h
  7. Fri 6 High 37° · 25 % · 29 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Moderate 37° · 30 % · 21 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

13,768
hectares burned
9.5 %
of its area
5
fires
1,449
km²

How many times has Toubakouta burned?

Toubakouta has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2023. The most recent: Toubakouta fire, April 2023, with 2,556 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 13,768 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 8,504 hectares, 5.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
13,768
cumulative ha
8,504
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 Toubakouta

  1. 2,556 ha Toubakouta fire, April 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,541 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 2,658 ha Toubakouta fire, February 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,643 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 3,797 ha Toubakouta fire, January 2018 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 3,967 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 2,296 ha Toubakouta fire, 6 February 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,283 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 2,461 ha Toubakouta fire, 3 February 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,574 ha in total · 5 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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