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Wildfires in Mamou

Mamou, Guinea: 91 fires with a page have entered 23 of its 36 sub-prefectures since 2016, burning 223,919 hectares inside the region. The largest was Maci in April 2017, with 5,849 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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
223,919ha
Since 2016
Of the region
13%
17,898 km²
fires
91
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
23
of 36
Largest fire
5,849ha
Maci · April 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 30° · 56 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 54 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 46 % · 28 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 45 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 46 % · 20 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 51 % · 14 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 63 % · 23 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 67 % · 30 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. Soyah 54,599 ha · 27 %
  2. Oure Kaba 29,264 ha · 17 %
  3. Kégnéko 25,172 ha · 20 %
  4. Sangaréah 24,265 ha · 18 %
  5. Koba 21,070 ha · 43 %
  6. Bouliwel 16,502 ha · 31 %
  7. Maci 12,758 ha · 31 %
  8. Teguereyah 8,482 ha · 6.4 %
  9. Kounkouré 6,069 ha · 13 %
  10. Gongoret 5,639 ha · 12 %
  11. Timbi Madina 4,582 ha · 13 %
  12. Saramoussaya 3,681 ha · 4.5 %

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
20262670,804 Koba 5,747 ha
2024614,160 Koba 3,559 ha
2023611,070 Soyah 3,243 ha
202236,716 Koba 2,396 ha
202146,856 Sangaréah 2,448 ha
2020613,296 Soyah 3,842 ha
20191233,731 Koba 5,648 ha
201839,631 Sangaréah 3,921 ha
20171435,304 Maci 5,849 ha
20161122,351 Kégnéko 3,837 ha

All fires in Mamou · 91

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).