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Wildfires in Ashanti

Ashanti, Ghana: 130 fires with a page have entered 16 of its 43 districts since 2016, burning 761,381 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sene West in December 2025, with 64,208 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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
761,381ha
Since 2016
Of the region
31%
24,715 km²
fires
130
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
16
of 43
Largest fire
64,208ha
Sene West · December 2025
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 62 % · 25 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 65 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 63 % · 23 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Low 31° · 60 % · 22 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 30° · 72 % · 31 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 29° · 72 % · 32 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 30° · 65 % · 37 km/h

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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

  1. Sekyere Afram Plains North 556,507 ha · 1.6×
  2. Sekyere Central 66,050 ha · 40 %
  3. Offinso North 38,249 ha · 40 %
  4. Atwima Mponua 23,599 ha · 12 %
  5. Ahafo Ano South West 18,901 ha · 37 %
  6. Ejura-Sekyedumase 17,849 ha · 13 %
  7. Offinso 14,732 ha · 25 %
  8. Sekyere Kumawu 9,894 ha · 17 %
  9. Asante Akim North 8,508 ha · 7.5 %
  10. Ahafo Ano South East 3,277 ha · 4.7 %
  11. Amansie South 2,341 ha · 3.9 %
  12. Amansie West 602 ha · 0.9 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (2,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

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

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20261061,434 Sene East 21,140 ha
2025783,911 Sene West 64,208 ha
202417127,226 Sene East 47,322 ha
202324,908 Ejura-Sekyedumase 2,480 ha
202214125,463 Sekyere Afram Plains North 47,116 ha
202122,299 Sekyere Afram Plains North 2,112 ha
20201398,647 Sene East 34,538 ha
20191246,694 Sene West 19,664 ha
2018819,633 Sekyere Afram Plains North 7,624 ha
20172377,223 Sene East 24,203 ha
201622113,943 Atwima Mponua 22,802 ha

All fires in Ashanti · 130

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/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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