Wildfires in Logone Oriental
Logone Oriental, Chad: 53 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 6 departments since 2016, burning 171,911 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kouh Ouest in 27 January 2016, with 9,742 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 26).
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
- 171,911ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 7.3%
- 23,585 km²
- fires
- 53
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 6
- of 6
- Largest fire
- 9,742ha
- Kouh Ouest · 27 January 2016
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 High 37° · 20 % · 29 km/h
- Sun 25 High 37° · 15 % · 31 km/h
- Mon 26 High 36° · 17 % · 32 km/h
- Tue 27 High 35° · 16 % · 37 km/h
- Wed 28 High 37° · 15 % · 35 km/h
- Thu 29 High 37° · 16 % · 37 km/h
- Fri 30 High 37° · 17 % · 30 km/h
- Sat 31 High 37° · 18 % · 39 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Kouh Ouest 70,336 ha · 34 %
- Monts de Lam 56,329 ha · 5.5 %
- La Nya Pendé 18,896 ha · 4.0 %
- La Pendé 13,055 ha · 5.2 %
- Kouh Est 7,205 ha · 4.6 %
- La Nya 6,091 ha · 2.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 22×Kouh Ouest70,336 ha
- 19×Monts de Lam56,329 ha
- 12×La Nya Pendé18,896 ha
- 5×La Pendé13,055 ha
- 4×La Nya6,091 ha
- 3×Kouh Est7,205 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 9,742 haKouh Ouest27 January 2016 · 13 days
- 7,678 haKouh Ouest7 January 2017 · 14 days
- 7,215 haKouh Ouest20 January 2016 · 10 days
- 6,154 haKouh Ouest22 January 2016 · 12 days
- 5,949 haKouh Ouest22 January 2021 · 9 days
- 5,812 haMonts de Lam8 January 2026 · 21 days
- 4,774 haMonts de LamDecember 2025 · 9 days
- 4,527 haMonts de Lam29 December 2016 · 8 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 9 | 26,063 | Monts de Lam 5,812 ha |
| 2025 | 3 | 11,558 | Monts de Lam 4,774 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 2,107 | Monts de Lam 2,107 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 2,303 | Monts de Lam 2,303 ha |
| 2022 | 2 | 5,017 | Kouh Ouest 2,875 ha |
| 2021 | 7 | 21,948 | Kouh Ouest 5,949 ha |
| 2020 | 2 | 6,224 | Kouh Ouest 3,906 ha |
| 2019 | 4 | 9,629 | Kouh Ouest 3,986 ha |
| 2018 | 2 | 6,270 | La Nya Pendé 4,249 ha |
| 2017 | 5 | 19,203 | Kouh Ouest 7,678 ha |
| 2016 | 17 | 61,588 | Kouh Ouest 9,742 ha |
All fires in Logone Oriental · 53
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 3,207 haMonts de LamFebruary 2026 · 6 days
- 2,355 haMonts de Lam31 January 2026 · 4 days
- 2,261 haMonts de Lam26 January 2026 · 8 days
- 3,009 haMonts de Lam19 January 2026 · 8 days
- 1,786 haLa PendéJanuary 2026 · 5 days of 2,309 ha in total
- 3,015 haLa Nya PendéJanuary 2026 · 6 days
- 5,812 haMonts de Lam8 January 2026 · 21 days
- 2,217 haMonts de Lam4 January 2026 · 5 days of 2,467 ha in total
- 2,401 haMonts de Lam1 January 2026 · 4 days
- 4,774 haMonts de LamDecember 2025 · 9 days
- 4,397 haKouh EstDecember 2025 · 7 days
- 2,387 haMonts de LamJanuary 2025 · 10 days
- 2,107 haMonts de LamJanuary 2024 · 7 days
- 2,303 haMonts de LamDecember 2023 · 5 days
- 2,875 haKouh OuestJanuary 2022 · 7 days
- 2,142 haLa PendéJanuary 2022 · 3 days
- 2,664 haLa Nya PendéJanuary 2021 · 8 days
- 5,949 haKouh Ouest22 January 2021 · 9 days
- 2,734 haKouh Ouest15 January 2021 · 5 days
- 2,246 haMonts de Lam5 January 2021 · 6 days
- 2,242 haMonts de Lam4 January 2021 · 12 days
- 3,165 haMonts de Lam4 January 2021 · 6 days
- 2,948 haMonts de Lam4 January 2021 · 8 days
- 3,906 haKouh Ouest10 February 2020 · 6 days
- 2,318 haKouh Ouest9 February 2020 · 6 days
- 2,122 haKouh Ouest26 January 2019 · 7 days
- 3,986 haKouh Ouest13 January 2019 · 6 days
- 2,142 haKouh Ouest13 January 2019 · 6 days
- 1,378 haLa PendéJanuary 2019 · 5 days of 2,175 ha in total
- 4,249 haLa Nya PendéJanuary 2018 · 6 days
- 2,021 haKouh OuestJanuary 2018 · 2 days
- 2,950 haKouh Ouest14 January 2017 · 5 days
- 2,312 haMonts de LamJanuary 2017 · 7 days
- 2,358 haLa Nya PendéJanuary 2017 · 8 days
- 7,678 haKouh Ouest7 January 2017 · 14 days
- 3,906 haLa PendéJanuary 2017 · 7 days
- 2,850 haMonts de Lam30 December 2016 · 5 days
- 4,527 haMonts de Lam29 December 2016 · 8 days
- 3,843 haTandjilé Est28 December 2016 · 8 days of 5,843 ha in total
- 3,515 haKouh EstDecember 2016 · 8 days
- 9,742 haKouh Ouest27 January 2016 · 13 days
- 2,047 haKouh Ouest27 January 2016 · 4 days
- 2,173 haLa Nya Pendé22 January 2016 · 7 days
- 6,154 haKouh Ouest22 January 2016 · 12 days
- 3,261 haLa Nya Pendé21 January 2016 · 9 days
- 2,974 haLa Nya Pendé20 January 2016 · 7 days
- 7,215 haKouh Ouest20 January 2016 · 10 days
- 2,382 haLa NyaJanuary 2016 · 5 days
- 2,456 haLa Nya Pendé20 January 2016 · 5 days
- 3,205 haMonts de LamJanuary 2016 · 7 days
- 834 haBarh-Sara15 January 2016 · 5 days of 2,343 ha in total
- 2,024 haKouh Ouest12 January 2016 · 13 days
- 2,388 haKouh Ouest9 January 2016 · 5 days
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).
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