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Wildfires in North-WestNord-Ouest

North-West, Cameroon: 126 fires with a page have entered 13 of its 34 communes since 2016, burning 221,194 hectares inside the region. The largest was Furu-Awa in 18 November 2025, with 16,097 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
221,194ha
Since 2016
Of the region
13%
17,232 km²
fires
126
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
13
of 34
Largest fire
16,097ha
Furu-Awa · 18 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. Sat 24 Very low 28° · 51 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 29° · 53 % · 17 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 67 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 76 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 70 % · 16 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 41 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 48 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 49 % · 27 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. Furu-Awa 85,565 ha · 72 %
  2. Benakuma 38,515 ha · 40 %
  3. Ako 29,431 ha · 27 %
  4. Nwa 21,163 ha · 15 %
  5. Zhoa 18,204 ha · 8.6 %
  6. Fonfuka 16,796 ha · 24 %
  7. Misaje 4,172 ha · 5.1 %
  8. Mbiame 2,482 ha · 3.6 %
  9. Santa 1,396 ha · 2.6 %
  10. Bafut 1,273 ha · 2.6 %
  11. Elak 1,232 ha · 3.9 %
  12. Bamenda I 860 ha · 9.7 %

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
20263052,949 Benakuma 5,631 ha
20251338,598 Furu-Awa 16,097 ha
202455,367 Furu-Awa 1,700 ha
20231617,490 Zhoa 1,709 ha
2022610,977 Furu-Awa 4,404 ha
20211119,592 Benakuma 4,099 ha
20201320,132 Furu-Awa 2,612 ha
2019718,492 Furu-Awa 9,436 ha
201811,062 Nwa 1,062 ha
20171422,525 Benakuma 3,903 ha
20161014,009 Zhoa 1,935 ha

All fires in North-West · 126

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).

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