Wildfires in Zou
Zou, Benin: 6 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 9 communes since 2016, burning 5,656 hectares inside the region. The largest was Zogbodomey in February 2020, with 2,126 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).
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
- 5,656ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.1%
- 5,079 km²
- fires
- 6
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 4
- of 9
- Largest fire
- 2,126ha
- Zogbodomey · February 2020
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 33° · 57 % · 26 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 33° · 52 % · 23 km/h
- Sun 25 Low 33° · 49 % · 24 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 31° · 66 % · 26 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 31° · 65 % · 29 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 31° · 63 % · 27 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 32° · 56 % · 30 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 31° · 64 % · 36 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Zogbodomey 3,151 ha · 3.8 %
- Djidja 1,305 ha · 0.6 %
- Covè 713 ha · 1.6 %
- Zagnanado 487 ha · 0.9 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 3×Djidja1,305 ha
- 2×Zogbodomey3,151 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 2,126 haZogbodomeyFebruary 2020 · 8 days
- 1,217 haDjidjaJanuary 2022 · 7 days
- 1,200 haZagnanadoJanuary 2017 · 13 days
- 1,024 haToffoFebruary 2016 · 8 days of 2,594 ha in total
- 85 haSavalou21 January 2026 · 6 days of 1,052 ha in total
- 4 haSavalou21 January 2026 · 9 days of 1,941 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 89 | Savalou 85 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 1,217 | Djidja 1,217 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 2,126 | Zogbodomey 2,126 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 1,200 | Zagnanado 1,200 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 1,024 | Toffo 1,024 ha |
All fires in Zou · 6
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).