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Wildfires in Plateau

Plateau, Benin: 5 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 6 communes since 2016, burning 7,813 hectares inside the region. The largest was Pobè in March 2026, with 1,712 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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
7,813ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.5%
3,162 km²
fires
5
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 6
Largest fire
1,712ha
Pobè · March 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 Very low 32° · 69 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 65 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 33° · 59 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 68 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 78 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 67 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 63 % · 35 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 66 % · 42 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. Pobè 3,702 ha · 8.6 %
  2. Kétou 3,254 ha · 1.8 %
  3. Adja-Ouèrè 858 ha · 1.9 %

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
202623,350 Pobè 1,712 ha
202411,615 Kétou 1,615 ha
202211,671 Pobè 1,671 ha
202011,177 Adja-Ouèrè 1,177 ha

All fires in Plateau · 5

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).