Wildfires in Estuaire
Estuaire, Gabon: 5 fires with a page have entered 1 of its 5 departments since 2016, burning 5,722 hectares inside the region. The largest was Komo-Océan in 2 August 2023, with 2,047 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
- 5,722ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.3%
- 19,786 km²
- fires
- 5
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 5
- Largest fire
- 2,047ha
- Komo-Océan · 2 August 2023
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 31 Very low 34° · 55 % · 34 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 34° · 55 % · 23 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 34° · 51 % · 22 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 31° · 62 % · 24 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 34° · 53 % · 29 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 33° · 57 % · 29 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 33° · 60 % · 28 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 32° · 95 % · 24 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Komo-Océan 5,722 ha · 1.5 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 5×Komo-Océan5,722 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 2,047 haKomo-Océan2 August 2023 · 3 days
- 1,394 haKomo-OcéanAugust 2020 · 3 days
- 1,203 haKomo-OcéanSeptember 2026 · 3 days of 1,524 ha in total
- 1,062 haKomo-Océan2 August 2023 · 2 days
- 15 haBendjèAugust 2017 · 1 day of 2,937 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 1,203 | Komo-Océan 1,203 ha |
| 2023 | 2 | 3,109 | Komo-Océan 2,047 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 1,394 | Komo-Océan 1,394 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 14 | Bendjè 14 ha |
All fires in Estuaire · 5
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, Wikipedia (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported). 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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