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Wildfires in EastEst

East, Cameroon: 253 fires with a page have entered 20 of its 33 communes since 2016, burning 693,156 hectares inside the region. The largest was Bétaré-Oya in 1 February 2023, with 62,227 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
693,156ha
Since 2016
Of the region
6.3%
109,762 km²
fires
253
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
20
of 33
Largest fire
62,227ha
Bétaré-Oya · 1 February 2023
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 29° · 76 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 57 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 56 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 58 % · 17 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 58 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 60 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 49 % · 21 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 59 % · 26 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. Bétaré-Oya 446,607 ha · 38 %
  2. Batouri 70,546 ha · 19 %
  3. Bélabo 46,165 ha · 6.9 %
  4. Kentzou 45,826 ha · 45 %
  5. Mandjou 21,293 ha · 8.0 %
  6. Ngoura 12,028 ha · 6.9 %
  7. Garoua-Boulaï 10,905 ha · 4.9 %
  8. Kétté 9,843 ha · 5.0 %
  9. Dimako 7,353 ha · 10 %
  10. Nguélébok 6,962 ha · 4.6 %
  11. Nguelemendouka 4,169 ha · 3.9 %
  12. Ouli 2,324 ha · 3.5 %

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
20261770,618 Bétaré-Oya 23,769 ha
20253170,496 Bétaré-Oya 7,146 ha
20241631,099 Bétaré-Oya 4,946 ha
202371221,372 Bétaré-Oya 62,227 ha
20221330,066 Bétaré-Oya 7,076 ha
20212791,168 Bétaré-Oya 34,438 ha
20202649,490 Bétaré-Oya 12,284 ha
20192047,647 Bétaré-Oya 12,016 ha
2018914,171 Kentzou 4,427 ha
20171452,559 Bétaré-Oya 15,321 ha
2016914,470 Bétaré-Oya 3,192 ha

All fires in East · 253

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).