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Wildfires in Adamaoua

Adamaoua, Cameroon: 249 fires with a page have entered 18 of its 20 communes since 2016, burning 365,003 hectares inside the region. The largest was Bankim in 19 February 2026, with 16,411 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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
365,003ha
Since 2016
Of the region
5.8%
62,445 km²
fires
249
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
18
of 20
Largest fire
16,411ha
Bankim · 19 February 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 30° · 39 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 29° · 43 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 30° · 38 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 53 % · 16 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 29° · 48 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 29° · 42 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 29° · 36 % · 43 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 30° · 37 % · 29 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. Tabati 107,773 ha · 11 %
  2. Bankim 67,113 ha · 27 %
  3. Meiganga 52,489 ha · 7.7 %
  4. Tignère 32,387 ha · 6.6 %
  5. Dir 29,317 ha · 5.9 %
  6. Nyambaka 22,614 ha · 3.8 %
  7. Mayo-Baléo 18,489 ha · 5.1 %
  8. Ngan'ha 6,485 ha · 3.1 %
  9. Banyo 6,388 ha · 1.3 %
  10. Djohong 4,510 ha · 1.8 %
  11. Ngaoundéré III 4,496 ha · 19 %
  12. Martap 3,596 ha · 0.8 %

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
20265083,967 Bankim 16,411 ha
20253142,633 Meiganga 3,578 ha
20241827,210 Meiganga 2,806 ha
20233140,085 Meiganga 4,223 ha
20221420,587 Tabati 3,221 ha
20212641,662 Tabati 3,930 ha
20201623,397 Tabati 3,171 ha
20191520,661 Tabati 4,590 ha
201889,263 Tabati 2,193 ha
20172127,833 Bankim 2,913 ha
20161927,706 Bankim 3,558 ha

All fires in Adamaoua · 249

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 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).