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Wildfires in Tchaoudjo

Tchaoudjo, Togo, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 12,807 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.3% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 33° · 46 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 33° · 40 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 32° · 42 % · 16 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 31° · 50 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 31° · 51 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 31° · 59 % · 40 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 33° · 41 % · 43 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 32° · 53 % · 26 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

12,807
hectares burned
5.3 %
of its area
17
fires
2,404
km²

How many times has Tchaoudjo burned?

Tchaoudjo has burned 17 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Tchaoudjo fire, 13 January 2026, with 2,066 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,807 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,540 hectares, 4.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 4× 26
17
fires
7
years with fire
12,807
cumulative ha
9,540
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 Tchaoudjo

  1. 2,066 ha Tchaoudjo fire, 13 January 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,375 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 1,615 ha Tchaoudjo fire, 9 January 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,605 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 1,225 ha Tchaoudjo fire, 8 January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,222 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 388 ha Tchaoudjo fire, 6 January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,192 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 72 ha Tchamba fire, 28 December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,226 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 412 ha Sotouboua fire, 26 November 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 36,837 ha in total · 46 days
  7. 1,055 ha Tchaoudjo fire, December 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,353 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 1,582 ha Bassar fire, 10 December 2021 0.7% of the municipality · 4,783 ha in total · 18 days
  9. 7 ha Bassar fire, 15 December 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,339 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 209 ha Bassar fire, 2 December 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,146 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 1,062 ha Tchaoudjo fire, November 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,055 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 914 ha Bassar fire, 21 December 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 1,744 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 129 ha Sotouboua fire, 16 December 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,155 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 955 ha Tchaoudjo fire, December 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,582 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 252 ha Sotouboua fire, 4 December 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,300 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 219 ha Tchaoudjo fire, December 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,973 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 647 ha Sotouboua fire, 3 December 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 1,999 ha in total · 8 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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