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Wildfires in Eastern Region

Eastern Region, Ghana: 42 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 33 districts since 2016, burning 85,308 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kwahu Afram Plains South in 21 January 2026, with 4,834 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
85,308ha
Since 2016
Of the region
4.5%
18,800 km²
fires
42
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 33
Largest fire
4,834ha
Kwahu Afram Plains South · 21 January 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 11 Very low 31° · 54 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low 30° · 68 % · 28 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 29° · 62 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 53 % · 29 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Low 30° · 49 % · 31 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 30° · 53 % · 29 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Low 30° · 52 % · 24 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Moderate 31° · 48 % · 28 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. Kwahu Afram Plains South 49,824 ha · 16 %
  2. Kwahu Afram Plains North 10,965 ha · 4.7 %
  3. Upper Manya 10,298 ha · 12 %
  4. Fanteakwa North 5,924 ha · 7.0 %
  5. Okere 2,595 ha · 8.4 %
  6. Yilo Krobo 2,414 ha · 5.0 %
  7. Fanteakwa South 1,708 ha · 6.5 %
  8. Kwahu South 786 ha · 1.0 %
  9. Lower Manya 540 ha · 1.8 %
  10. Kwahu East 252 ha · 0.4 %

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
2026723,297 Kwahu Afram Plains South 4,834 ha
202445,116 Kwahu Afram Plains South 2,463 ha
202245,935 Kwahu Afram Plains South 2,972 ha
202114,323 Kwahu Afram Plains South 4,323 ha
202055,603 Kwahu Afram Plains South 2,392 ha
201912,083 Kwahu Afram Plains South 2,083 ha
201824,307 Kwahu Afram Plains South 2,611 ha
201765,160 Kwahu Afram Plains South 2,322 ha
20161229,484 Okere 4,480 ha

All fires in Eastern Region · 42

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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