Wildfires in Nyanga
Nyanga, Gabon: 34 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 6 departments since 2016, burning 49,879 hectares inside the region. The largest was Mougoutsi in 16 July 2016, with 3,393 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
- 49,879ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.5%
- 19,640 km²
- fires
- 34
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 6
- Largest fire
- 3,393ha
- Mougoutsi · 16 July 2016
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 31 Very low 31° · 66 % · 25 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 30° · 69 % · 19 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 33° · 66 % · 22 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 29° · 79 % · 24 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 30° · 74 % · 24 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 31° · 70 % · 23 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 31° · 66 % · 29 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 29° · 91 % · 27 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
- 3,393 haMougoutsi16 July 2016 · 3 days
- 3,390 haMongo18 August 2017 · 2 days
- 2,324 haMougoutsiAugust 2020 · 4 days
- 2,120 haMongoJune 2026 · 3 days
- 2,097 haMongo1 August 2024 · 2 days
- 1,981 haMougoutsiJuly 2023 · 5 days
- 1,790 haDoutsitaAugust 2024 · 2 days
- 1,764 haMongoAugust 2022 · 3 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 | 6 | 7,601 | Mongo 2,120 ha |
| 2025 | 5 | 6,335 | Mougoutsi 1,741 ha |
| 2024 | 5 | 8,312 | Mongo 2,097 ha |
| 2023 | 5 | 6,889 | Mougoutsi 1,981 ha |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,230 | Mongo 1,764 ha |
| 2020 | 2 | 3,334 | Mougoutsi 2,324 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 1,014 | Mongo 1,014 ha |
| 2018 | 2 | 2,192 | Mougoutsi 1,172 ha |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,505 | Mongo 3,390 ha |
| 2016 | 2 | 4,467 | Mougoutsi 3,393 ha |
All fires in Nyanga · 34
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,201 haMongoAugust 2026 · 2 days
- 1,186 haMongo30 July 2026 · 2 days
- 1,019 haMongo3 July 2026 · 1 day
- 1,341 haDoutsita24 June 2026 · 2 days
- 734 haDoutsita22 June 2026 · 2 days of 1,271 ha in total
- 2,120 haMongoJune 2026 · 3 days
- 1,152 haDoutsita3 October 2025 · 1 day
- 1,043 haDoutsita2 October 2025 · 2 days
- 1,144 haMongoSeptember 2025 · 1 day
- 1,741 haMougoutsiAugust 2025 · 4 days
- 1,256 haMongoAugust 2025 · 4 days
- 1,263 haMongo27 August 2024 · 5 days
- 1,790 haDoutsitaAugust 2024 · 2 days
- 1,411 haMougoutsiAugust 2024 · 6 days
- 2,097 haMongo1 August 2024 · 2 days
- 1,750 haMongoJuly 2024 · 5 days
- 1,061 haMougoutsi3 August 2023 · 3 days
- 1,402 haMougoutsi3 August 2023 · 5 days
- 1,154 haMongoAugust 2023 · 3 days
- 1,291 haMongoJuly 2023 · 5 days
- 1,981 haMougoutsiJuly 2023 · 5 days
- 1,764 haMongoAugust 2022 · 3 days
- 1,110 haDoutsitaAugust 2022 · 1 day
- 1,357 haMongoJuly 2022 · 3 days
- 1,009 haDoutsitaAugust 2020 · 3 days
- 2,324 haMougoutsiAugust 2020 · 4 days
- 1,014 haMongoSeptember 2019 · 2 days
- 1,020 haMougoutsi27 July 2018 · 2 days
- 1,172 haMougoutsi11 July 2018 · 3 days
- 1,010 haDoutsitaSeptember 2017 · 1 day
- 1,106 haMongo28 August 2017 · 2 days
- 3,390 haMongo18 August 2017 · 2 days
- 1,074 haMougoutsi24 July 2016 · 1 day
- 3,393 haMougoutsi16 July 2016 · 3 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, 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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