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Wildfires in Atakora

Atakora, Benin: 534 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 9 communes since 2016, burning 1,921,996 hectares inside the region. The largest was Tanguiéta in 14 January 2021, with 80,199 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned
1,921,996ha
Since 2016
Of the region
90%
21,326 km²
fires
534
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 9
Largest fire
80,199ha
Tanguiéta · 14 January 2021
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Moderate 34° · 34 % · 16 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 34° · 28 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 33° · 36 % · 18 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 48 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 33° · 46 % · 22 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 35° · 31 % · 31 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 36° · 24 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 36° · 34 % · 26 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Tanguiéta 1,592,870 ha · 2.8×
  2. Kérou 223,702 ha · 57 %
  3. Matéri 80,558 ha · 45 %
  4. Boukombe 15,505 ha · 16 %
  5. Kouandé 3,414 ha · 1.0 %
  6. Toucountouna 3,396 ha · 3.1 %
  7. Natitingou 1,378 ha · 1.0 %
  8. Kobli 1,174 ha · 1.4 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20261933,168 Tanguiéta 5,700 ha
202598301,735 Kérou 19,424 ha
202447217,829 Tanguiéta 57,640 ha
202347182,577 Tanguiéta 59,966 ha
202255340,626 Tanguiéta 76,997 ha
202149234,648 Tanguiéta 80,199 ha
202043136,048 Tanguiéta 34,500 ha
201951223,117 Tanguiéta 48,736 ha
2018826,162 Tanguiéta 10,348 ha
201767131,673 Tanguiéta 8,155 ha
20165094,414 Tanguiéta 5,235 ha

All fires in Atakora · 534

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). 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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