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Wildfires in WestOuest

West, Cameroon: 49 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 40 communes since 2016, burning 134,872 hectares inside the region. The largest was Massangam in 17 February 2026, with 38,501 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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
134,872ha
Since 2016
Of the region
9.6%
14,085 km²
fires
49
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 40
Largest fire
38,501ha
Massangam · 17 February 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 low 25° · 63 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 62 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 27° · 65 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 67 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 57 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 52 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 57 % · 28 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. Massangam 117,498 ha · 53 %
  2. Malentouen 10,162 ha · 9.3 %
  3. Magba 5,283 ha · 4.5 %
  4. Foumban 1,249 ha · 2.2 %
  5. Foumbot 674 ha · 0.9 %
  6. Bangangté 5 ha · 0.0 %

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
2026848,294 Massangam 38,501 ha
2025829,165 Massangam 18,087 ha
202466,343 Massangam 2,047 ha
2023413,830 Massangam 6,826 ha
202269,884 Massangam 3,637 ha
202134,931 Massangam 3,395 ha
202024,828 Massangam 3,553 ha
201945,084 Massangam 2,847 ha
2018111 Ngambé-Tikar 11 ha
201748,692 Malentouen 4,032 ha
201633,810 Malentouen 2,340 ha

All fires in West · 49

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).