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Wildfires in Boké

Boké, Guinea: 274 fires with a page have entered 33 of its 37 sub-prefectures since 2016, burning 751,886 hectares inside the region. The largest was Wendou Mbour in 28 April 2016, with 17,200 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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
751,886ha
Since 2016
Of the region
22%
34,448 km²
fires
274
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
33
of 37
Largest fire
17,200ha
Wendou Mbour · 28 April 2016
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 32° · 64 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 62 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 69 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 60 % · 17 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 55 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 69 % · 24 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 71 % · 27 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. Koumbia 181,412 ha · 50 %
  2. Wendou Mbour 136,019 ha · 91 %
  3. Kakony 55,112 ha · 35 %
  4. Kolia 51,765 ha · 30 %
  5. Sangarédi 44,421 ha · 35 %
  6. Lisso 37,888 ha · 44 %
  7. Kounsitel 26,408 ha · 14 %
  8. Baguinet 21,643 ha · 48 %
  9. Tanene 20,253 ha · 10 %
  10. Kamabi 18,176 ha · 17 %
  11. Dabiss 17,465 ha · 6.7 %
  12. Banguigny 16,741 ha · 42 %

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
202645143,228 Kamabi 10,401 ha
20251435,865 Koumbia 5,897 ha
20241738,847 Wendou Mbour 6,910 ha
2023920,580 Koumbia 4,776 ha
20221849,181 Wendou Mbour 6,570 ha
20211940,540 Wendou Mbour 2,933 ha
20201647,709 Wendou Mbour 7,561 ha
20192351,922 Wendou Mbour 5,636 ha
20183077,822 Koumbia 13,731 ha
20173691,498 Missira 5,777 ha
201647154,694 Wendou Mbour 17,200 ha

All fires in Boké · 274

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/World Food Programme, OCHA ROWCA (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).