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Wildfires in Tchamba

Tchamba, Togo, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 18,362 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.6% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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 34° · 43 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 33° · 45 % · 16 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 34° · 37 % · 15 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 32° · 48 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 44 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 32° · 53 % · 44 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 34° · 50 % · 46 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

18,362
hectares burned
5.6 %
of its area
13
fires
3,251
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Tchamba

  1. 1,053 ha Tchamba fire, 24 January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,047 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 2,827 ha Tchamba fire, 15 January 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,810 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 1,162 ha Tchamba fire, 28 December 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,226 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 1,914 ha Tchamba fire, 27 December 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,903 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 1,018 ha Tchamba fire, February 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,012 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,805 ha Tchamba fire, December 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,794 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,118 ha Tchamba fire, February 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,537 ha in total · 21 days
  8. 1,013 ha Tchamba fire, November 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 1,332 ha Tchamba fire, February 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,035 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 1,145 ha Tchamba fire, 6 February 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,270 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 1,086 ha Tchamba fire, 5 February 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,080 ha in total · 14 days
  12. 1,831 ha Tchamba fire, February 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,821 ha in total · 15 days
  13. 1,059 ha Tchamba fire, December 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,053 ha in total · 7 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).