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Wildfires in Sava

Sava, Madagascar: 14 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 4 districts since 2016, burning 53,833 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sambava in November 2025, with 13,923 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
53,833ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.2%
24,063 km²
fires
14
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 4
Largest fire
13,923ha
Sambava · November 2025
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 28° · 56 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 30° · 51 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 29° · 44 % · 47 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 29° · 46 % · 46 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 28° · 54 % · 46 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 29° · 49 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 63 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 65 % · 40 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Sambava 19,804 ha · 4.2 %
  2. Vohemar 16,108 ha · 1.9 %
  3. Andapa 15,395 ha · 3.8 %
  4. Antalaha 4,374 ha · 0.6 %

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
202627,139 Vohemar 5,291 ha
20251040,321 Sambava 13,923 ha
202312,317 Andapa 2,317 ha
202013,871 Sambava 3,871 ha
201712,034 Vohemar 2,034 ha

All fires in Sava · 15

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/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).