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Wildfires in Blitta

Blitta, Togo, has had 24 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 38,173 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% 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 Low 32° · 52 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 32° · 50 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 32° · 46 % · 15 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 32° · 49 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 32° · 49 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 59 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 32° · 49 % · 31 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 32° · 56 % · 24 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

38,173
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
24
fires
3,234
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Blitta

  1. 1,646 ha Blitta fire, 24 January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,635 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,438 ha Blitta fire, 22 January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,422 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 3,488 ha Blitta fire, 22 January 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,264 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 5,265 ha Blitta fire, 17 January 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 5,488 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 679 ha Blitta fire, 17 January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,602 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 5,276 ha Blitta fire, 13 January 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 5,243 ha in total · 18 days
  7. 587 ha Sotouboua fire, 11 January 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 5,526 ha in total · 21 days
  8. 1,081 ha Blitta fire, December 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,074 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 1,348 ha Blitta fire, November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,339 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 1,345 ha Blitta fire, February 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,336 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 1,161 ha Blitta fire, 16 February 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,177 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 1,067 ha Blitta fire, 14 February 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,060 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 1,074 ha Blitta fire, 21 January 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,067 ha in total · 12 days
  14. 1,240 ha Blitta fire, 18 January 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,232 ha in total · 15 days
  15. 1,074 ha Blitta fire, March 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,068 ha in total · 14 days
  16. 285 ha Sotouboua fire, 30 November 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,768 ha in total · 11 days
  17. 1,202 ha Blitta fire, 23 February 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,195 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 1,096 ha Blitta fire, 2 February 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,089 ha in total · 14 days
  19. 1,266 ha Blitta fire, 1 February 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,258 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 1,167 ha Blitta fire, January 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,159 ha in total · 14 days
  21. 784 ha Blitta fire, February 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,223 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 1,046 ha Blitta fire, 22 January 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,039 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 1,424 ha Blitta fire, 22 January 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,414 ha in total · 8 days
  24. 1,134 ha Blitta fire, 22 January 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,127 ha in total · 10 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).