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Wildfires in South-WestSud-Ouest

South-West, Cameroon: 42 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 31 communes since 2016, burning 61,807 hectares inside the region. The largest was Akwaya in 28 February 2017, with 3,750 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
61,807ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.5%
25,051 km²
fires
42
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 31
Largest fire
3,750ha
Akwaya · 28 February 2017
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 49 % · 17 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 34° · 47 % · 25 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 33° · 52 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 57 % · 17 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 33° · 52 % · 32 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 33° · 50 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 34° · 48 % · 34 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 33° · 50 % · 25 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. Akwaya 32,092 ha · 8.7 %
  2. Buéa 15,089 ha · 28 %
  3. Mamfé 8,356 ha · 2.6 %
  4. Isanguele 2,052 ha · 6.1 %
  5. Idenau 1,788 ha · 5.8 %
  6. Muyuka 1,611 ha · 3.4 %
  7. Mudemba 557 ha · 0.3 %
  8. Mbonge 261 ha · 0.3 %

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
202679,932 Mamfé 2,492 ha
202523,362 Akwaya 1,880 ha
202466,496 Akwaya 1,648 ha
202355,850 Mamfé 1,444 ha
202223,669 Akwaya 2,005 ha
202144,936 Akwaya 2,169 ha
202058,125 Akwaya 2,664 ha
201911,510 Buéa 1,510 ha
201811,703 Akwaya 1,703 ha
2017814,878 Akwaya 3,750 ha
201611,345 Akwaya 1,345 ha

All fires in South-West · 42

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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