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Wildfires in Far NorthExtrême-Nord

Far North, Cameroon: 344 fires with a page have entered 22 of its 47 communes since 2016, burning 646,956 hectares inside the region. The largest was Zina in 6 January 2026, with 82,662 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 37).

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
646,956ha
Since 2016
Of the region
18%
35,044 km²
fires
344
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
22
of 47
Largest fire
82,662ha
Zina · 6 January 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 high 37° · 17 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 36° · 15 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 36° · 14 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 37° · 12 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 37° · 13 % · 21 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 38° · 12 % · 34 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 38° · 15 % · 48 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 38° · 15 % · 34 km/h

Burning now in the region

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. Logone-Birni 183,305 ha · 65 %
  2. Waza 174,828 ha · 70 %
  3. Zina 142,871 ha · 1.3×
  4. Darak 56,959 ha · 30 %
  5. Maga 16,982 ha · 16 %
  6. Kolofata 13,937 ha · 22 %
  7. Mora 12,128 ha · 7.1 %
  8. Mozogo 9,675 ha · 35 %
  9. Kai-Kai 7,074 ha · 8.7 %
  10. Hina 6,281 ha · 13 %
  11. Mokolo 4,779 ha · 2.7 %
  12. Meri 4,496 ha · 6.9 %

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
202666234,457 Zina 82,662 ha
20254063,287 Logone-Birni 3,848 ha
20242329,181 Darak 2,927 ha
20231522,776 Waza 2,510 ha
20221631,316 Darak 4,959 ha
20213344,589 Darak 4,701 ha
20203149,189 Darak 4,511 ha
20191727,417 Kolofata 3,341 ha
20181113,761 Zina 1,615 ha
20176492,102 Waza 4,366 ha
20162838,882 Darak 3,428 ha

All fires in Far North · 344

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).