Wildfires in Yoto
Yoto, Togo, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 11,566 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.8% 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- Sat 24 Very low 34° · 50 % · 23 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 33° · 53 % · 21 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 32° · 65 % · 27 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 30° · 74 % · 36 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 31° · 64 % · 23 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 32° · 59 % · 32 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 32° · 62 % · 31 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 32° · 61 % · 22 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
- 11,566
- hectares burned
- 8.8 %
- of its area
- 9
- fires
- 1,318
- km²
How many times has Yoto burned?
Yoto has burned 9 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Yoto fire, December 2025, with 984 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 11,566 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,497 hectares, 5.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.
- 9
- fires
- 9
- years with fire
- 11,566
- cumulative ha
- 7,497
- 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.
Fires that entered Yoto
- 984 ha Yoto fire, December 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,004 ha in total · 4 days
- 466 ha Haho fire, December 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 1,084 ha in total · 7 days
- 556 ha Haho fire, December 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 2,162 ha in total · 12 days
- 1,654 ha Yoto fire, December 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,647 ha in total · 6 days
- 973 ha Yoto fire, December 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,202 ha in total · 6 days
- 2,582 ha Yoto fire, December 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,183 ha in total · 19 days
- 1,116 ha Yoto fire, December 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,218 ha in total · 10 days
- 1,822 ha Yoto fire, January 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,840 ha in total · 5 days
- 1,412 ha Yoto fire, December 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,402 ha in total · 15 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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