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Wildfires in SouthSud

South, Cameroon: 19 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 29 communes since 2016, burning 25,318 hectares inside the region. The largest was Campo in January 2023, with 2,149 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
25,318ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.5%
47,707 km²
fires
19
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 29
Largest fire
2,149ha
Campo · January 2023
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 30° · 52 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 46 % · 27 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 50 % · 19 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 64 % · 18 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 60 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 73 % · 24 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 66 % · 23 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. Lokoundjé 8,002 ha · 3.5 %
  2. Kribi II 6,850 ha · 65 %
  3. Campo 4,755 ha · 1.7 %
  4. Bengbis 3,077 ha · 1.4 %
  5. Meyomessala 1,622 ha · 0.8 %
  6. Kribi I 1,013 ha · 4.9 %

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
202668,012 Kribi II 2,032 ha
202511,475 Lokoundjé 1,475 ha
202422,468 Kribi II 1,366 ha
202334,286 Campo 2,149 ha
202222,829 Lokoundjé 1,598 ha
202134,720 Kribi II 2,113 ha
201621,528 Édéa I 1,029 ha

All fires in South · 19

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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