Wildfires in Bono
Bono, Ghana: 51 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 12 districts since 2016, burning 197,615 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sunyani West in 22 January 2016, with 26,827 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).
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
- 197,615ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 17%
- 11,719 km²
- fires
- 51
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 8
- of 12
- Largest fire
- 26,827ha
- Sunyani West · 22 January 2016
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 27 Very low 31° · 64 % · 27 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 31° · 63 % · 25 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 30° · 68 % · 21 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 31° · 65 % · 44 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 30° · 65 % · 23 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 31° · 62 % · 26 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 31° · 63 % · 43 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 31° · 69 % · 52 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Sunyani West 105,388 ha · 99 %
- Banda 38,359 ha · 17 %
- Dormaa 23,930 ha · 20 %
- Berekum East 16,093 ha · 35 %
- Tain 7,239 ha · 3.9 %
- Wenchi 3,574 ha · 3.1 %
- Sunyani 2,769 ha · 5.4 %
- Dormaa West 263 ha · 0.7 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 27×Sunyani West105,388 ha
- 16×Banda38,359 ha
- 8×Berekum East16,093 ha
- 7×Tain7,239 ha
- 3×Dormaa23,930 ha
- 3×Wenchi3,574 ha
- 2×Sunyani2,769 ha
- 2×Dormaa West263 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 26,827 haSunyani West22 January 2016 · 27 days
- 18,684 haDormaaJanuary 2025 · 28 days
- 10,893 haSunyani West2 February 2017 · 23 days
- 8,100 haSunyani West2 February 2020 · 14 days
- 4,994 haSunyani West21 January 2024 · 25 days
- 4,887 haSunyani West30 January 2023 · 6 days
- 4,345 haSunyani West7 February 2020 · 6 days
- 4,127 haSunyani WestJanuary 2018 · 12 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 | 2 | 6,038 | Banda 3,828 ha |
| 2025 | 4 | 27,812 | Dormaa 18,684 ha |
| 2024 | 4 | 12,244 | Sunyani West 4,994 ha |
| 2023 | 3 | 9,382 | Sunyani West 4,887 ha |
| 2022 | 4 | 11,010 | Sunyani West 3,548 ha |
| 2021 | 3 | 6,809 | Sunyani West 2,670 ha |
| 2020 | 9 | 31,225 | Sunyani West 8,100 ha |
| 2019 | 5 | 13,646 | Berekum East 4,080 ha |
| 2018 | 4 | 10,936 | Sunyani West 4,127 ha |
| 2017 | 8 | 29,632 | Sunyani West 10,893 ha |
| 2016 | 5 | 38,881 | Sunyani West 26,827 ha |
All fires in Bono · 51
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 3,828 haBanda25 January 2026 · 7 days
- 2,210 haBanda16 January 2026 · 16 days
- 2,570 haSunyaniJanuary 2025 · 23 days
- 18,684 haDormaaJanuary 2025 · 28 days
- 3,023 haSunyani West15 January 2025 · 16 days
- 3,534 haSunyani West11 January 2025 · 11 days
- 2,186 haBanda27 December 2024 · 5 days
- 2,751 haBanda16 December 2024 · 11 days
- 2,312 haSunyani West24 January 2024 · 6 days
- 4,994 haSunyani West21 January 2024 · 25 days
- 2,257 haBandaDecember 2023 · 16 days
- 4,887 haSunyani West30 January 2023 · 6 days
- 2,237 haSunyani West29 January 2023 · 8 days
- 2,763 haBandaDecember 2022 · 7 days
- 2,143 haSunyani West28 January 2022 · 4 days
- 3,548 haSunyani West24 January 2022 · 9 days
- 2,555 haSunyani West24 January 2022 · 7 days
- 2,018 haWenchiDecember 2021 · 19 days
- 2,670 haSunyani WestFebruary 2021 · 14 days
- 2,121 haBandaJanuary 2021 · 11 days
- 2,153 haBandaDecember 2020 · 13 days
- 2,789 haSunyani West14 February 2020 · 4 days
- 3,032 haDormaaFebruary 2020 · 11 days
- 2,067 haSunyani West8 February 2020 · 9 days
- 4,345 haSunyani West7 February 2020 · 6 days
- 3,915 haSunyani West6 February 2020 · 6 days
- 2,732 haSunyani West4 February 2020 · 5 days
- 2,092 haSunyani West2 February 2020 · 9 days
- 8,100 haSunyani West2 February 2020 · 14 days
- 2,313 haBanda23 December 2019 · 14 days
- 2,036 haBanda23 December 2019 · 11 days
- 2,326 haBanda21 December 2019 · 23 days
- 4,080 haBerekum EastFebruary 2019 · 7 days
- 2,891 haSunyani WestJanuary 2019 · 6 days
- 2,251 haBanda13 December 2018 · 7 days
- 2,446 haBanda10 December 2018 · 8 days
- 2,112 haBanda5 December 2018 · 16 days of 2,628 ha in total
- 4,127 haSunyani WestJanuary 2018 · 12 days
- 2,201 haBanda21 December 2017 · 11 days
- 1,540 haWenchiDecember 2017 · 7 days of 2,276 ha in total
- 2,405 haBanda10 December 2017 · 3 days
- 3,468 haSunyani West19 February 2017 · 4 days
- 3,285 haSunyani West18 February 2017 · 4 days
- 3,593 haSunyani West18 February 2017 · 7 days
- 2,247 haSunyani West16 February 2017 · 5 days
- 10,893 haSunyani West2 February 2017 · 23 days
- 2,733 haTain10 February 2016 · 4 days
- 3,860 haTain6 February 2016 · 12 days
- 2,476 haDormaaFebruary 2016 · 7 days
- 2,984 haSunyani West23 January 2016 · 11 days
- 26,827 haSunyani West22 January 2016 · 27 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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