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Wildfires in Volta

Volta, Ghana: 14 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 18 districts since 2016, burning 40,685 hectares inside the region. The largest was Hohoe in January 2020, with 5,967 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
40,685ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.9%
10,396 km²
fires
14
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
5
of 18
Largest fire
5,967ha
Hohoe · January 2020
Inhabitants
—

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 32° · 64 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 63 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 64 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 66 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 69 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 63 % · 27 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 70 % · 35 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Hohoe 15,617 ha · 23 %
  2. Adaklu 14,863 ha · 18 %
  3. Ho West 6,179 ha · 6.1 %
  4. Ho 3,207 ha · 5.6 %
  5. Afadzato South 819 ha · 1.5 %

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
202615,052 Adaklu 5,052 ha
20251517 Biakoye 517 ha
202425,582 Hohoe 2,952 ha
202226,559 Adaklu 3,951 ha
202038,257 Hohoe 5,967 ha
201913,052 Adaklu 3,052 ha
201812,825 Adaklu 2,825 ha
201712,113 Ho West 2,113 ha
201626,728 Hohoe 4,535 ha

All fires in Volta · 14

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).