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Wildfires in Centre

Centre, Cameroon: 227 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 70 communes since 2016, burning 719,113 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ngambé-Tikar in 14 February 2026, with 120,511 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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
719,113ha
Since 2016
Of the region
10%
69,141 km²
fires
227
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 70
Largest fire
120,511ha
Ngambé-Tikar · 14 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 Very low 28° · 64 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 49 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 56 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 62 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 64 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 56 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 38 % · 39 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 49 % · 37 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. Ngambé-Tikar 578,518 ha · 83 %
  2. Yoko 127,695 ha · 8.1 %
  3. Minta 4,352 ha · 2.1 %
  4. Bokito 3,782 ha · 2.5 %
  5. Nanga-Eboko 2,047 ha · 0.4 %
  6. Ombessa 1,379 ha · 3.8 %
  7. Esse 1,056 ha · 1.3 %
  8. Deuk 284 ha · 0.2 %

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
202615151,311 Ngambé-Tikar 120,511 ha
202526103,472 Ngambé-Tikar 28,044 ha
20242657,482 Ngambé-Tikar 11,250 ha
20232297,727 Ngambé-Tikar 36,741 ha
20222263,424 Ngambé-Tikar 11,653 ha
20212157,064 Ngambé-Tikar 20,732 ha
20202564,580 Ngambé-Tikar 23,155 ha
20192128,901 Ngambé-Tikar 3,679 ha
201878,022 Yoko 1,321 ha
20172045,094 Ngambé-Tikar 14,323 ha
20162242,037 Ngambé-Tikar 5,352 ha

All fires in Centre · 227

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).