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Wildfires in Sofia

Sofia, Madagascar: 164 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 519,862 hectares inside the region. The largest was Antsohihy in December 2024, with 15,023 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
519,862ha
Since 2016
Of the region
10%
50,205 km²
fires
164
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 7
Largest fire
15,023ha
Antsohihy · December 2024
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 high 38° · 21 % · 49 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 38° · 23 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 36° · 28 % · 41 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 36° · 29 % · 44 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 37° · 23 % · 49 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 36° · 24 % · 49 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 35° · 41 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 58 % · 45 km/h

Burning now in the region

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. Antsohihy 133,140 ha · 28 %
  2. Befandriana Nord 117,519 ha · 13 %
  3. Port-Berge (Boriziny-Vaovao) 106,380 ha · 15 %
  4. Mandritsara 67,516 ha · 6.5 %
  5. Analalava 61,517 ha · 7.0 %
  6. Bealanana 18,268 ha · 2.7 %
  7. Mampikony 18,125 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
202635107,944 Mandritsara 9,421 ha
20251444,958 Port-Berge (Boriziny-Vaovao) 6,308 ha
20241664,632 Antsohihy 15,023 ha
2023716,552 Befandriana Nord 2,757 ha
20221133,978 Befandriana Nord 5,329 ha
2021825,931 Antsohihy 9,513 ha
20201562,881 Antsohihy 14,608 ha
20191644,789 Antsohihy 4,057 ha
2018820,068 Mandritsara 3,159 ha
20171230,816 Antsohihy 4,288 ha
20162469,918 Port-Berge (Boriziny-Vaovao) 7,347 ha

All fires in Sofia · 166

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).