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Wildfires in Dankpen

Dankpen, Togo, has had 31 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 41,708 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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 35° · 41 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 33° · 50 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 34° · 45 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 34° · 45 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 33° · 47 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 33° · 51 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 54 % · 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

41,708
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
31
fires
2,670
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Dankpen

  1. 1,356 ha Dankpen fire, 18 February 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,347 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,289 ha Dankpen fire, 17 February 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,282 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,133 ha Dankpen fire, 16 February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,161 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 433 ha Dankpen fire, 9 February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,146 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 988 ha Dankpen fire, 24 January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,032 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 1,397 ha Dankpen fire, 24 January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,389 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,028 ha Dankpen fire, 24 January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,022 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,755 ha Dankpen fire, 24 January 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,743 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 1,968 ha Dankpen fire, 23 January 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,136 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 2,138 ha Dankpen fire, February 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,126 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 1,442 ha Dankpen fire, December 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,447 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 1,014 ha Dankpen fire, February 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 1,157 ha Dankpen fire, 30 January 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,150 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 1,773 ha Dankpen fire, 28 January 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,762 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 797 ha Dankpen fire, 19 January 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,084 ha in total · 14 days
  16. 1,433 ha Dankpen fire, February 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,423 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 3,428 ha Dankpen fire, January 2022 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,408 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 749 ha Bassar fire, January 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 2,118 ha in total · 17 days
  19. 1,190 ha Dankpen fire, February 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,182 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 1,155 ha Dankpen fire, December 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,431 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 1,090 ha Dankpen fire, January 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,083 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 1,223 ha Dankpen fire, March 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,215 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 1,080 ha Dankpen fire, 15 February 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,074 ha in total · 1 day
  24. 1,359 ha Dankpen fire, 3 February 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,351 ha in total · 6 days
  25. 1,456 ha Dankpen fire, 22 January 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,447 ha in total · 7 days
  26. 1,100 ha Dankpen fire, 20 January 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,093 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 1,434 ha Dankpen fire, 9 January 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,424 ha in total · 7 days
  28. 1,452 ha Dankpen fire, February 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,444 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 1,037 ha Dankpen fire, 30 January 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,031 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 1,726 ha Dankpen fire, 22 January 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,715 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 1,127 ha Dankpen fire, 6 January 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,120 ha in total · 2 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).