Wildfires in Cacheu
Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau: 9 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 7 sectors since 2016, burning 12,076 hectares inside the region. The largest was São Domingos in May 2020, with 2,404 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
- 12,076ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.3%
- 5,219 km²
- fires
- 9
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 5
- of 7
- Largest fire
- 2,404ha
- São Domingos · May 2020
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Low 37° · 38 % · 22 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 33° · 65 % · 27 km/h
- Sun 25 Low 34° · 51 % · 18 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 34° · 59 % · 30 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 35° · 47 % · 21 km/h
- Wed 28 Low 34° · 55 % · 31 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 32° · 68 % · 26 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- São Domingos 6,436 ha · 5.6 %
- Cacheu 3,858 ha · 3.7 %
- Bula 1,059 ha · 1.6 %
- Bigene 393 ha · 0.4 %
- Canchungo 330 ha · 0.5 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 4×São Domingos6,436 ha
- 3×Cacheu3,858 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 2,404 haSão DomingosMay 2020 · 10 days of 3,294 ha in total
- 1,916 haCacheu27 May 2018 · 9 days
- 1,489 haSão DomingosJune 2018 · 2 days
- 1,424 haSão DomingosMay 2018 · 8 days
- 1,174 haCacheu26 May 2018 · 9 days
- 1,120 haSão DomingosJune 2020 · 3 days of 1,680 ha in total
- 1,098 haCacheuMay 2017 · 7 days
- 1,059 haBulaJune 2020 · 2 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3 | 4,582 | São Domingos 2,404 ha |
| 2018 | 4 | 6,003 | Cacheu 1,916 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 1,491 | Cacheu 1,098 ha |
All fires in Cacheu · 9
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,059 haBulaJune 2020 · 2 days
- 1,120 haSão DomingosJune 2020 · 3 days of 1,680 ha in total
- 2,404 haSão DomingosMay 2020 · 10 days of 3,294 ha in total
- 1,489 haSão DomingosJune 2018 · 2 days
- 1,916 haCacheu27 May 2018 · 9 days
- 1,424 haSão DomingosMay 2018 · 8 days
- 1,174 haCacheu26 May 2018 · 9 days
- 1,098 haCacheuMay 2017 · 7 days
- 393 haFarim13 April 2017 · 2 days of 1,604 ha in total
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).