Wildfires in Kémo
Kémo, Central African Republic: 14 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 8 sub-prefectures since 2016, burning 100,702 hectares inside the region. The largest was Tilo in February 2026, with 27,003 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).
Only fires of 5,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 100,702ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 6.1%
- 16,493 km²
- fires
- 14
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 6
- of 8
- Largest fire
- 27,003ha
- Tilo · February 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Mon 9 Moderate 34° · 37 % · 19 km/h
- Tue 10 Moderate 35° · 32 % · 28 km/h
- Wed 11 High 35° · 28 % · 21 km/h
- Thu 12 High 35° · 18 % · 25 km/h
- Fri 13 High 34° · 19 % · 25 km/h
- Sat 14 High 35° · 17 % · 24 km/h
- Sun 15 Very high 36° · 18 % · 30 km/h
- Mon 16 High 34° · 39 % · 29 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
- 27,003 haTiloFebruary 2026 · 29 days
- 7,631 haDékoaFebruary 2016 · 15 days
- 6,951 haMalaFebruary 2016 · 16 days
- 6,499 haGalabadjaDecember 2025 · 20 days
- 6,383 haDékoaFebruary 2020 · 27 days
- 5,981 haNgoumbéléFebruary 2026 · 20 days
- 5,914 haGuiffaFebruary 2023 · 19 days
- 5,852 haMala2 February 2026 · 11 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Kémo · 14
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 5,981 haNgoumbéléFebruary 2026 · 20 days
- 4,444 haNdenga25 February 2026 · 12 days
- 3,418 haDékoaFebruary 2026 · 12 days
- 5,147 haGuiffaFebruary 2026 · 16 days
- 5,086 haMala16 February 2026 · 26 days
- 27,003 haTiloFebruary 2026 · 29 days
- 5,852 haMala2 February 2026 · 11 days
- 6,499 haGalabadjaDecember 2025 · 20 days
- 5,914 haGuiffaFebruary 2023 · 19 days
- 5,115 haDékoaFebruary 2023 · 10 days
- 6,383 haDékoaFebruary 2020 · 27 days
- 5,278 haDékoaJanuary 2020 · 26 days
- 6,951 haMalaFebruary 2016 · 16 days
- 7,631 haDékoaFebruary 2016 · 15 days
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 2.5 Generic). 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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