Wildfires in Ahafo
Ahafo, Ghana: 13 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 6 districts since 2016, burning 39,999 hectares inside the region. The largest was Asunafo South in January 2016, with 16,193 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).
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
- 39,999ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 7.9%
- 5,080 km²
- fires
- 13
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 6
- of 6
- Largest fire
- 16,193ha
- Asunafo South · January 2016
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 31 Very low 32° · 54 % · 21 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 31° · 62 % · 17 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 30° · 74 % · 25 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 30° · 70 % · 23 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 30° · 66 % · 37 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 31° · 61 % · 24 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 31° · 69 % · 20 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 31° · 69 % · 19 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Tano North 16,333 ha · 19 %
- Asunafo South 13,124 ha · 14 %
- Asunafo North 8,385 ha · 5.9 %
- Tano South 916 ha · 1.9 %
- Asutifi North 740 ha · 0.8 %
- Asutifi South 502 ha · 0.8 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 6×Tano North16,333 ha
- 4×Tano South916 ha
- 3×Asunafo North8,385 ha
- 3×Asutifi North740 ha
- 2×Asunafo South13,124 ha
- 2×Asutifi South502 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 16,193 haAsunafo SouthJanuary 2016 · 37 days
- 6,620 haTano North14 January 2016 · 30 days
- 4,726 haAsunafo NorthJanuary 2025 · 13 days
- 4,640 haTano NorthFebruary 2025 · 15 days
- 3,307 haTano NorthFebruary 2020 · 22 days
- 2,255 haTano North28 January 2016 · 17 days
- 567 haJuabosoJanuary 2016 · 30 days of 10,170 ha in total
- 497 haOffinso NorthFebruary 2016 · 12 days of 5,860 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 | 71 | Offinso North 71 ha |
| 2025 | 3 | 9,803 | Asunafo North 4,726 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 3,307 | Tano North 3,307 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 143 | Offinso North 143 ha |
| 2018 | 1 | 109 | Offinso North 109 ha |
| 2016 | 6 | 26,566 | Asunafo South 16,193 ha |
All fires in Ahafo · 13
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 71 haOffinso NorthJanuary 2026 · 8 days of 3,824 ha in total
- 4,640 haTano NorthFebruary 2025 · 15 days
- 4,726 haAsunafo NorthJanuary 2025 · 13 days
- 436 haDormaaJanuary 2025 · 28 days of 19,008 ha in total
- 3,307 haTano NorthFebruary 2020 · 22 days
- 143 haOffinso NorthMarch 2019 · 4 days of 2,138 ha in total
- 109 haOffinso NorthJanuary 2018 · 6 days of 2,287 ha in total
- 497 haOffinso NorthFebruary 2016 · 12 days of 5,860 ha in total
- 2,255 haTano North28 January 2016 · 17 days
- 434 haOffinso North26 January 2016 · 17 days of 3,453 ha in total
- 16,193 haAsunafo SouthJanuary 2016 · 37 days
- 567 haJuabosoJanuary 2016 · 30 days of 10,170 ha in total
- 6,620 haTano North14 January 2016 · 30 days
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Open Street Map (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0). 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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