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Wildfires in Gao

Gao, Mali: 135 fires with a page have entered 16 of its 23 communes since 2016, burning 548,177 hectares inside the region. The largest was Tessit in 19 October 2025, with 41,537 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 78).

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
548,177ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.1%
179,430 km²
fires
135
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
16
of 23
Largest fire
41,537ha
Tessit · 19 October 2025
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 22 Very extreme 40° · 7 % · 39 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very extreme 39° · 9 % · 45 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very extreme 39° · 10 % · 46 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Extreme 38° · 11 % · 35 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Extreme 37° · 11 % · 28 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Extreme 38° · 10 % · 27 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Extreme 38° · 13 % · 26 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Extreme 39° · 11 % · 26 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. N'tillit 161,330 ha · 13 %
  2. Tessit 110,249 ha · 23 %
  3. Ménaka 107,486 ha · 7.2 %
  4. Inékar 39,164 ha · 1.4 %
  5. Tin Hama 26,314 ha · 7.5 %
  6. Gabéro 21,605 ha · 11 %
  7. Andéramboukane 19,364 ha · 2.9 %
  8. Bourra 17,667 ha · 7.6 %
  9. Talataye 12,915 ha · 1.6 %
  10. Anchawadi 9,233 ha · 0.7 %
  11. Ouattagouna 7,613 ha · 2.5 %
  12. Tidermène 6,182 ha · 0.2 %

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
2026826,961 Inékar 5,842 ha
202560282,645 Tessit 41,537 ha
202432141,640 N'tillit 40,210 ha
20231130,308 Ménaka 4,795 ha
2022822,319 Tidermène 3,897 ha
2021717,313 Ménaka 3,400 ha
202037,870 N'tillit 2,933 ha
2019516,934 N'tillit 6,633 ha
201712,187 Ménaka 2,187 ha

All fires in Gao · 135

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/DNCT - Direction Nationale des Collectivités Territoriales, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Mali (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).