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Wildfires in Savannah

Savannah, Ghana: 368 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 1,265,117 hectares inside the region. The largest was North East Gonja in 1 January 2026, with 36,954 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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
1,265,117ha
Since 2016
Of the region
36%
35,290 km²
fires
368
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 7
Largest fire
36,954ha
North East Gonja · 1 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. Thu 29 Low 36° · 43 % · 24 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Moderate 36° · 40 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Moderate 36° · 40 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Moderate 37° · 32 % · 28 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Moderate 37° · 39 % · 26 km/h
  6. Tue 3 High 37° · 37 % · 32 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Moderate 37° · 35 % · 29 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Moderate 39° · 34 % · 31 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. West Gonja 332,594 ha · 70 %
  2. North Gonja 253,095 ha · 52 %
  3. Central Gonja 228,010 ha · 30 %
  4. North East Gonja 220,197 ha · 36 %
  5. Sawla-Tuna-Kalba 116,597 ha · 27 %
  6. Bole 85,450 ha · 14 %
  7. East Gonja 29,175 ha · 13 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 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
202655231,095 North East Gonja 36,954 ha
202553217,715 West Gonja 32,408 ha
202435119,551 West Gonja 16,502 ha
20233199,669 West Gonja 16,245 ha
20222874,767 West Gonja 7,782 ha
20213082,233 North Gonja 7,220 ha
20202782,736 West Gonja 13,141 ha
201939128,991 West Gonja 13,285 ha
20181741,944 North East Gonja 4,957 ha
201726118,486 Sawla-Tuna-Kalba 35,263 ha
20162767,932 Sawla-Tuna-Kalba 3,652 ha

All fires in Savannah · 368

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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