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Wildfires in Kanem

Kanem, Chad: 9 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 3 departments since 2016, burning 47,465 hectares inside the region. The largest was Nord Kanem in 27 October 2025, with 18,509 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 77).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned: 47,465ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 0.7%; 68,113 km²
fires: 9; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 2; of 3
Largest fire: 18,509ha; Nord Kanem · 27 October 2025
Inhabitants: —

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast

Fri 23 Very extreme 34° · 9 % · 54 km/h
Sat 24 Very extreme 34° · 7 % · 48 km/h
Sun 25 Very extreme 34° · 10 % · 49 km/h
Mon 26 Very extreme 34° · 12 % · 44 km/h
Tue 27 Very extreme 35° · 13 % · 46 km/h
Wed 28 Very extreme 35° · 17 % · 45 km/h
Thu 29 Extreme 34° · 17 % · 53 km/h
Fri 30 Extreme 34° · 16 % · 43 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

Nord Kanem 40,763 ha · 0.7 %
Kanem 6,702 ha · 0.7 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

7×Nord Kanem40,763 ha
3×Kanem6,702 ha

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Year	fires	hectares burned	Largest of the year
2025	6	40,502	Nord Kanem 18,509 ha
2024	1	2,124	Nord Kanem 2,124 ha
2022	1	2,359	Nord Kanem 2,359 ha
2017	1	2,481	Nord Kanem 2,481 ha

All fires in Kanem · 9

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/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).