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Wildfires in Labé

Labé, Guinea: 66 fires with a page have entered 22 of its 53 sub-prefectures since 2016, burning 142,142 hectares inside the region. The largest was Balaki in 14 January 2026, with 5,293 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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
142,142ha
Since 2016
Of the region
6.2%
22,852 km²
fires
66
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
22
of 53
Largest fire
5,293ha
Balaki · 14 January 2026
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 31° · 43 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 31° · 44 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 30° · 49 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 29° · 56 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 29° · 49 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 29° · 48 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 58 % · 25 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 58 % · 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. Balaki 42,895 ha · 16 %
  2. Gadha Woundou 20,701 ha · 18 %
  3. Kolet 15,689 ha · 11 %
  4. Fello Koundoua 15,628 ha · 14 %
  5. Kouratongo 11,322 ha · 13 %
  6. Lebekeren 8,454 ha · 7.3 %
  7. Hérico 7,719 ha · 19 %
  8. Madina Wora 4,085 ha · 5.9 %
  9. Parawol 4,007 ha · 15 %
  10. Kolangui 2,741 ha · 7.0 %
  11. Salambande 2,083 ha · 5.3 %
  12. Hidayatou 1,475 ha · 3.9 %

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
20261633,884 Balaki 5,293 ha
2025713,797 Kolet 2,540 ha
2023510,869 Hérico 2,245 ha
2021714,994 Kouratongo 3,107 ha
202023,777 Fello Koundoua 2,079 ha
2019715,795 Kolet 3,718 ha
2018514,027 Kolet 3,907 ha
20171020,360 Kolet 3,377 ha
2016714,639 Balaki 2,556 ha

All fires in Labé · 66

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).