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Wildfires in Amou

Amou, Togo, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 53,313 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 30% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 32° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 57 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 52 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 53 % · 17 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 52 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 65 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 62 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 66 % · 38 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

53,313
hectares burned
30 %
of its area
18
fires
1,798
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Amou

  1. 1,103 ha Wawa fire, 23 January 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 2,678 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 30,362 ha Amou fire, January 2026 where it started 17% of the municipality · 38,183 ha in total · 25 days
  3. 1,157 ha Amou fire, 17 January 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,150 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 2,394 ha Amou fire, 7 January 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,378 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 1,140 ha Amou fire, 13 January 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,132 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 1,038 ha Amou fire, 12 January 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,031 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 560 ha Wawa fire, 24 January 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 1,184 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 1,940 ha Amou fire, January 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,927 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 162 ha Wawa fire, 20 January 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 1,101 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 1,277 ha Amou fire, January 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,342 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 1,193 ha Amou fire, February 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,553 ha in total · 18 days
  12. 799 ha Akébou fire, January 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 1,175 ha in total · 12 days
  13. 1,279 ha Amou fire, 9 February 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,270 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 1,127 ha Amou fire, 8 February 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,465 ha in total · 11 days
  15. 1,165 ha Amou fire, December 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,158 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 1,005 ha Amou fire, January 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,680 ha in total · 15 days
  17. 1,219 ha Wawa fire, 22 January 2016 0.7% of the municipality · 6,571 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 4,391 ha Amou fire, January 2016 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 4,361 ha in total · 13 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).