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Wildfires in Bassar

Bassar, Togo, has had 58 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 91,548 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 28% 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. Wed 28 Low 33° · 48 % · 23 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Low 32° · 60 % · 24 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Low 32° · 58 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Low 31° · 57 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Low 33° · 54 % · 19 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Low 34° · 53 % · 20 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Low 33° · 59 % · 27 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Low 33° · 60 % · 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

91,548
hectares burned
28 %
of its area
58
fires
3,289
km²

How many times has Bassar burned?

Bassar has burned 58 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Dankpen fire, 23 January 2026, with 1,010 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 6× 16
  2. 7× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 7× 19
  5. 9× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 8× 25
  11. 5× 26
58
fires
11
years with fire
91,548
cumulative ha
23 Jan 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 1,000 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 Togo →

Fires that entered Bassar

  1. 1,010 ha Dankpen fire, 23 January 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 3,136 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 124 ha Plaine de Mô fire, 13 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,958 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 5 ha Tchaoudjo fire, 8 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,222 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1,219 ha Bassar fire, 6 January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,210 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,171 ha Bassar fire, 1 January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,164 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 1,203 ha Bassar fire, 29 December 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,196 ha in total · 21 days
  7. 1,266 ha Bassar fire, 29 December 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,257 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 1,427 ha Bassar fire, 28 December 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,418 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,270 ha Bassar fire, 27 December 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,262 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 3,017 ha Bassar fire, 17 December 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,999 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 1,398 ha Bassar fire, 16 December 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,390 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 1,470 ha Bassar fire, 5 December 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,461 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 15,963 ha Sotouboua fire, 26 November 2025 4.8% of the municipality · 36,837 ha in total · 46 days
  14. 1,246 ha Bassar fire, 18 December 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,239 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 1,170 ha Bassar fire, 13 December 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,163 ha in total · 15 days
  16. 1,248 ha Bassar fire, 12 December 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,240 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 2,048 ha Bassar fire, November 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,036 ha in total · 14 days
  18. 1,079 ha Bassar fire, December 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,073 ha in total · 11 days
  19. 153 ha Kozah fire, December 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,017 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 1,401 ha Bassar fire, December 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,393 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 1,265 ha Bassar fire, November 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,263 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 1,135 ha Bassar fire, January 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,118 ha in total · 17 days
  23. 1,012 ha Bassar fire, 23 December 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,006 ha in total · 9 days
  24. 3,256 ha Bassar fire, 17 December 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,236 ha in total · 17 days
  25. 2,525 ha Bassar fire, 10 December 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,783 ha in total · 18 days
  26. 20 ha Sotouboua fire, 10 December 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,261 ha in total · 21 days
  27. 1,533 ha Bassar fire, 17 December 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,524 ha in total · 8 days
  28. 1,430 ha Bassar fire, 15 December 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,421 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 2,182 ha Bassar fire, 10 December 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,339 ha in total · 14 days
  30. 944 ha Bassar fire, 2 December 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,146 ha in total · 4 days
  31. 1,260 ha Bassar fire, 30 November 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,253 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 1,430 ha Bassar fire, 30 November 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,421 ha in total · 14 days
  33. 1,375 ha Bassar fire, 19 November 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,366 ha in total · 8 days
  34. 16 ha Sotouboua fire, 17 November 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,240 ha in total · 10 days
  35. 1,394 ha Bassar fire, January 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,387 ha in total · 4 days
  36. 1,693 ha Bassar fire, 22 December 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,682 ha in total · 5 days
  37. 840 ha Bassar fire, 21 December 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,744 ha in total · 12 days
  38. 29 ha Sotouboua fire, 19 December 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,654 ha in total · 16 days
  39. 285 ha Dankpen fire, December 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,431 ha in total · 3 days
  40. 1,605 ha Bassar fire, 12 December 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,595 ha in total · 13 days
  41. 1,418 ha Bassar fire, 12 December 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,410 ha in total · 11 days
  42. 2,552 ha Bassar fire, 8 December 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,537 ha in total · 20 days
  43. 1,195 ha Bassar fire, December 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,188 ha in total · 6 days
  44. 7 ha Sotouboua fire, December 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,627 ha in total · 18 days
  45. 1,014 ha Bassar fire, January 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,008 ha in total · 2 days
  46. 1,688 ha Bassar fire, 11 December 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,678 ha in total · 8 days
  47. 1,899 ha Bassar fire, 9 December 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,887 ha in total · 10 days
  48. 1,234 ha Bassar fire, 29 November 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,227 ha in total · 6 days
  49. 1,029 ha Bassar fire, 28 November 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,023 ha in total · 9 days
  50. 38 ha Sotouboua fire, 26 November 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,701 ha in total · 11 days
  51. 1,537 ha Bassar fire, 25 November 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,527 ha in total · 12 days
  52. 1,087 ha Bassar fire, January 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,081 ha in total · 1 day
  53. 1,038 ha Bassar fire, 29 December 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,076 ha in total · 10 days
  54. 1,609 ha Bassar fire, 21 December 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,599 ha in total · 13 days
  55. 1,187 ha Bassar fire, 21 December 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,179 ha in total · 9 days
  56. 6,742 ha Bassar fire, 15 December 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 6,703 ha in total · 17 days
  57. 1,139 ha Bassar fire, 1 December 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,132 ha in total · 11 days
  58. 1,019 ha Bassar fire, November 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,012 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).

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