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Wildfires in Vélingara

Vélingara, Senegal, has had 38 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 107,114 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.4% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 34).

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. Mon 26 Very high 40° · 14 % · 46 km/h
  2. Tue 27 High 38° · 10 % · 30 km/h
  3. Wed 28 High 36° · 13 % · 30 km/h
  4. Thu 29 High 36° · 16 % · 22 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Moderate 36° · 32 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sat 31 High 32° · 46 % · 39 km/h
  7. Sun 1 High 36° · 23 % · 33 km/h
  8. Mon 2 High 38° · 22 % · 27 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

107,114
hectares burned
7.4 %
of its area
38
fires
14,491
km²

How many times has Vélingara burned?

Vélingara has burned 38 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Vélingara fire, 18 February 2026, with 6,452 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 107,114 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 98,644 hectares, 6.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 10× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 6× 26
38
fires
9
years with fire
107,114
cumulative ha
98,644
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 Vélingara

  1. 6,452 ha Vélingara fire, 18 February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,404 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 10,882 ha Vélingara fire, 16 February 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 10,810 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,924 ha Vélingara fire, 14 February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,072 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 2,332 ha Vélingara fire, 28 January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,322 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,589 ha Vélingara fire, 27 January 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,194 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 3,031 ha Vélingara fire, 27 January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,012 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 3,133 ha Vélingara fire, 3 November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,121 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 2,041 ha Vélingara fire, 3 November 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,032 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 2,029 ha Vélingara fire, 1 November 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,017 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 2,709 ha Vélingara fire, March 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,263 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 4,250 ha Vélingara fire, February 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,222 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 2,290 ha Vélingara fire, October 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,280 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 2,422 ha Vélingara fire, March 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,406 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 2,988 ha Vélingara fire, February 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,157 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 4,244 ha Vélingara fire, January 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,211 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 2,375 ha Vélingara fire, 26 December 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,360 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 888 ha Koussanar fire, December 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 2,628 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 2,144 ha Vélingara fire, 13 December 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,134 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 4,181 ha Vélingara fire, 1 December 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,152 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 2,833 ha Vélingara fire, 13 November 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,822 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 2,186 ha Vélingara fire, 12 November 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,176 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 2,654 ha Vélingara fire, 20 October 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,637 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 2,602 ha Vélingara fire, 18 October 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,585 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 2,508 ha Vélingara fire, January 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,493 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 1,473 ha Sinthiou Banambe/Wouro Sidy fire, January 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 3,417 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 2,122 ha Vélingara fire, November 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,113 ha in total · 3 days
  27. 2,842 ha Vélingara fire, February 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,823 ha in total · 4 days
  28. 2,640 ha Vélingara fire, January 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,629 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 2,117 ha Vélingara fire, March 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,106 ha in total · 2 days
  30. 2,159 ha Vélingara fire, October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,152 ha in total · 8 days
  31. 2,433 ha Vélingara fire, 11 November 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,424 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 2,035 ha Vélingara fire, 8 November 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,029 ha in total · 2 days
  33. 2,509 ha Vélingara fire, February 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,228 ha in total · 3 days
  34. 342 ha Sinthiou Banambe/Wouro Sidy fire, January 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,345 ha in total · 2 days
  35. 2,204 ha Vélingara fire, 12 November 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,194 ha in total · 3 days
  36. 2,382 ha Vélingara fire, 8 November 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,373 ha in total · 1 day
  37. 3,418 ha Vélingara fire, 18 October 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,401 ha in total · 1 day
  38. 2,753 ha Vélingara fire, 18 October 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,741 ha in total · 3 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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