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Wildfires in Faranah

Faranah, Guinea: 252 fires with a page have entered 34 of its 41 sub-prefectures since 2016, burning 977,660 hectares inside the region. The largest was Manfran in January 2017, with 68,719 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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
977,660ha
Since 2016
Of the region
27%
35,919 km²
fires
252
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
34
of 41
Largest fire
68,719ha
Manfran · January 2017
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 33° · 52 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 55 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 50 % · 18 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 49 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 32° · 50 % · 19 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 59 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 63 % · 19 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 71 % · 28 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. Manfran 272,535 ha · 3.1×
  2. Albadariah 204,830 ha · 2.9×
  3. Sangardo 130,446 ha · 1.1×
  4. Firawa 49,417 ha · 1.4×
  5. Gnaléah 44,778 ha · 43 %
  6. Gagnakaly 43,493 ha · 16 %
  7. Banian 41,693 ha · 21 %
  8. Beindou 32,061 ha · 17 %
  9. Passaya 29,598 ha · 10.0 %
  10. Marella 18,806 ha · 28 %
  11. Kindoye 16,346 ha · 22 %
  12. Tiro 12,383 ha · 21 %

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
202655229,255 Albadariah 67,544 ha
20251344,669 Manfran 11,316 ha
20242667,938 Sangardo 7,357 ha
20231121,881 Beindou 4,347 ha
20222394,800 Manfran 36,104 ha
20212075,498 Manfran 19,198 ha
20202691,312 Manfran 11,920 ha
20192389,114 Manfran 25,143 ha
20181552,941 Douako 9,493 ha
201719116,379 Manfran 68,719 ha
20162193,873 Firawa 24,762 ha

All fires in Faranah · 252

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).