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Wildfires in Wawa

Wawa, Togo, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 16,409 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 49 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 29° · 50 % · 21 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 63 % · 18 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 79 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 80 % · 29 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 60 % · 31 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 56 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 62 % · 27 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

16,409
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
12
fires
1,216
km²

How many times has Wawa burned?

Wawa has burned 12 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Wawa fire, 23 January 2026, with 1,593 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 16,409 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 13,052 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
12
fires
6
years with fire
16,409
cumulative ha
13,052
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 Wawa

  1. 1,593 ha Wawa fire, 23 January 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,678 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,311 ha Wawa fire, 20 January 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,303 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 3,577 ha Amou fire, January 2026 2.9% of the municipality · 38,183 ha in total · 25 days
  4. 632 ha Wawa fire, 24 January 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,184 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 785 ha Wawa fire, 20 January 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,101 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 73 ha Amou fire, January 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 1,342 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 369 ha Amou fire, February 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 1,553 ha in total · 18 days
  8. 348 ha Amou fire, 8 February 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 1,465 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 687 ha Amou fire, January 2016 0.6% of the municipality · 1,680 ha in total · 15 days
  10. 4,323 ha Wawa fire, 22 January 2016 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 6,571 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 1,061 ha Wawa fire, 22 January 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,054 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,650 ha Wawa fire, 21 January 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,642 ha in total · 11 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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