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Wildfires in Akébou

Akébou, Togo, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 19,693 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

Only fires of 1,000 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 31° · 48 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 30° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 31° · 44 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 30° · 47 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 30° · 47 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 58 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 52 % · 33 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 54 % · 22 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

19,693
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
14
fires
1,125
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Akébou

  1. 1,810 ha Blitta fire, 22 January 2026 1.6% of the municipality · 5,264 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,761 ha Akébou fire, January 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,750 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 4,501 ha Amou fire, January 2026 4.0% of the municipality · 38,183 ha in total · 25 days
  4. 2,590 ha Akébou fire, March 2024 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,573 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 1,206 ha Akébou fire, February 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,649 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 24 ha Blitta fire, 16 February 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,177 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 384 ha Akébou fire, January 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,175 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 1,219 ha Akébou fire, March 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,211 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 1,172 ha Akébou fire, 13 March 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,165 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 1,835 ha Akébou fire, 7 March 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,823 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 1,252 ha Akébou fire, March 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,244 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 863 ha Akébou fire, January 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,337 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,072 ha Wawa fire, 22 January 2016 1.0% of the municipality · 6,571 ha in total · 13 days
  14. 3 ha Wawa fire, 21 January 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,642 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/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).