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Wildfires in NorthNord

North, Cameroon: 1,652 fires with a page have entered 18 of its 22 communes since 2016, burning 2,947,695 hectares inside the region. The largest was Poli in 22 November 2025, with 53,079 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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
2,947,695ha
Since 2016
Of the region
43%
67,853 km²
fires
1,652
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
18
of 22
Largest fire
53,079ha
Poli · 22 November 2025
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 Moderate 34° · 33 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 33° · 37 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 33° · 34 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 34° · 32 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 34° · 35 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 33° · 31 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 28 % · 23 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 28 % · 22 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. Poli 1,182,693 ha · 1.2×
  2. Tcholliré 804,199 ha · 55 %
  3. Rey-Bouba 378,369 ha · 43 %
  4. Touboro 214,986 ha · 21 %
  5. Béka 87,448 ha · 52 %
  6. Lagdo 48,520 ha · 22 %
  7. Mayo-Oulo 38,237 ha · 27 %
  8. Madingring 37,818 ha · 12 %
  9. Ngong 35,867 ha · 14 %
  10. Baschéo 23,013 ha · 22 %
  11. Mbé 22,369 ha · 13 %
  12. Gachiga 21,405 ha · 38 %

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
2026194327,145 Poli 9,725 ha
2025251591,285 Poli 53,079 ha
202499165,465 Rey-Bouba 5,556 ha
2023110201,246 Poli 14,720 ha
2022123188,696 Tcholliré 5,054 ha
2021173303,129 Tcholliré 6,809 ha
2020150235,984 Poli 7,154 ha
2019115208,112 Poli 9,585 ha
20186799,520 Poli 3,459 ha
2017156258,957 Tcholliré 22,303 ha
2016214368,156 Poli 26,825 ha

All fires in North · 1652

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).