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Wildfires in Borgou

Borgou, Benin: 38 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 8 communes since 2016, burning 56,674 hectares inside the region. The largest was Tchaourou in 11 January 2016, with 4,504 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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
56,674ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.3%
25,177 km²
fires
38
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
5
of 8
Largest fire
4,504ha
Tchaourou · 11 January 2016
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Moderate 35° · 27 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 33° · 40 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 34° · 27 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 32° · 41 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 42 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 33° · 46 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 35° · 35 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 45 % · 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. Tchaourou 35,099 ha · 5.2 %
  2. Kalalé 14,476 ha · 3.8 %
  3. N'dali 4,755 ha · 1.3 %
  4. Bembéréké 1,556 ha · 0.5 %
  5. Sinendé 789 ha · 0.3 %

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
20261624,983 Djougou 4,172 ha
202222,686 Kalalé 1,470 ha
202122,787 Kalalé 1,709 ha
202011,030 Kalalé 1,030 ha
201944,229 Tchaourou 1,423 ha
20181856 Bassila 856 ha
201759,134 Tchaourou 3,988 ha
2016710,968 Tchaourou 4,504 ha

All fires in Borgou · 38

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).