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Wildfires in Kankan

Kankan, Guinea: 436 fires with a page have entered 27 of its 57 sub-prefectures since 2016, burning 1,340,827 hectares inside the region. The largest was Tokounou in 25 January 2020, with 13,362 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 5).

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
1,340,827ha
Since 2016
Of the region
19%
72,182 km²
fires
436
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
27
of 57
Largest fire
13,362ha
Tokounou · 25 January 2020
Inhabitants
—

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Low 34° · 48 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 32° · 48 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 33° · 45 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 33° · 43 % · 18 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 32° · 44 % · 19 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 31° · 49 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 31° · 58 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 66 % · 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. Douako 346,984 ha · 1.2×
  2. Mamouroudou 221,395 ha · 1.4×
  3. Tokounou 151,520 ha · 1.3×
  4. Komodou 112,416 ha · 77 %
  5. Kerouane Ctre 95,717 ha · 1.1×
  6. Banfélé 76,119 ha · 36 %
  7. Tinti Oulen 72,353 ha · 34 %
  8. Linko 59,908 ha · 39 %
  9. Moribayah 52,957 ha · 31 %
  10. Soromaya 31,340 ha · 19 %
  11. Boula 28,580 ha · 8.1 %
  12. Konsankoro 21,155 ha · 22 %

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
202686249,392 Kerouane Ctre 12,585 ha
20251738,136 Naboun 4,307 ha
202440112,560 Mamouroudou 8,004 ha
202335102,973 Banfélé 7,209 ha
202239122,083 Tokounou 8,490 ha
202141142,963 Mamouroudou 10,962 ha
202043142,908 Tokounou 13,362 ha
201941139,629 Douako 9,353 ha
20181775,461 Douako 13,052 ha
201742110,706 Douako 6,154 ha
201635104,015 Kerouane Ctre 12,298 ha

All fires in Kankan · 436

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).