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Wildfires in Donga

Donga, Benin: 59 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 4 communes since 2016, burning 225,479 hectares inside the region. The largest was Bassila in 7 January 2026, with 110,139 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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
225,479ha
Since 2016
Of the region
20%
11,276 km²
fires
59
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
2
of 4
Largest fire
110,139ha
Bassila · 7 January 2026
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 Low 33° · 45 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 33° · 43 % · 16 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 33° · 38 % · 16 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 32° · 45 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 48 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 31° · 55 % · 41 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 40 % · 53 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 32° · 54 % · 25 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. Bassila 219,609 ha · 39 %
  2. Djougou 5,870 ha · 1.5 %

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
20268140,362 Bassila 110,139 ha
2025811,198 Bassila 1,739 ha
202411,337 Bassila 1,337 ha
2023814,835 Bassila 4,763 ha
202226,492 Bassila 5,367 ha
202147,001 Bassila 3,354 ha
202024,672 Bassila 2,654 ha
201966,748 Bassila 2,335 ha
201834,640 Bassila 2,170 ha
2017914,729 Bassila 3,891 ha
2016813,464 Bassila 2,536 ha

All fires in Donga · 59

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).