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Wildfires in Bafatá

Bafatá, Guinea-Bissau: 87 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 6 sectors since 2016, burning 119,090 hectares inside the region. The largest was Contuboel in February 2024, with 4,873 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned
119,090ha
Since 2016
Of the region
20%
6,027 km²
fires
87
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 6
Largest fire
4,873ha
Contuboel · February 2024
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 69 % · 19 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 63 % · 17 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Low 33° · 53 % · 18 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Low 33° · 49 % · 15 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Low 33° · 53 % · 13 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Low 34° · 50 % · 18 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Low 33° · 45 % · 26 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Low 33° · 66 % · 16 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. Contuboel 62,543 ha · 46 %
  2. Bambadinca 17,708 ha · 20 %
  3. Xitole 14,753 ha · 12 %
  4. Gamamundo 13,307 ha · 12 %
  5. Galomaro 10,530 ha · 12 %
  6. Bafatá 249 ha · 0.4 %

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
20261829,962 Contuboel 3,587 ha
202521,909 Contuboel 1,168 ha
20241115,881 Contuboel 4,873 ha
202311,042 Xitole 1,042 ha
2022912,672 Contuboel 1,984 ha
202154,220 Xitole 1,119 ha
202087,118 Contuboel 1,426 ha
2019711,999 Contuboel 3,503 ha
201822,127 Contuboel 1,920 ha
2017811,732 Bambadinca 4,132 ha
20161620,429 Bambadinca 2,298 ha

All fires in Bafatá · 87

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/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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