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Wildfires in Kpendjal

Kpendjal, Togo, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 22,349 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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 Moderate 36° · 30 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 35° · 38 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 35° · 35 % · 16 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 35° · 38 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 34° · 43 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 44 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 35° · 34 % · 29 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 36° · 43 % · 29 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

22,349
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
16
fires
1,835
km²

How many times has Kpendjal burned?

Kpendjal has burned 16 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kpendjal fire, 22 January 2026, with 1,177 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 22,349 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,148 hectares, 8.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 2× 26
16
fires
8
years with fire
22,349
cumulative ha
16,148
distinct ha

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 Kpendjal

  1. 1,177 ha Kpendjal fire, 22 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,170 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,730 ha Kpendjal fire, 11 January 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,719 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 3,740 ha Kpendjal fire, 14 November 2025 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,463 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 2,127 ha Kpendjal fire, 2 November 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,774 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 1,118 ha Kpendjal fire, December 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,111 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,270 ha Kpendjal fire, 14 November 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,261 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 1,785 ha Kpendjal fire, 6 November 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,629 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 1,467 ha Kpendjal fire, December 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,458 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 1,579 ha Kpendjal fire, 18 November 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,342 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 659 ha Kpendjal fire, 13 November 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,209 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 1,627 ha Kpendjal fire, 5 November 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,710 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 11 ha Oti fire, 26 January 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,215 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 856 ha Kpendjal fire, 11 January 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,120 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 922 ha Kpendjal fire, 10 January 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,104 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 1,124 ha Kpendjal fire, December 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,117 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 1,156 ha Kpendjal fire, November 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,149 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).

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