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Wildfires in Kayes

Kayes, Mali: 340 fires with a page have entered 81 of its 129 communes since 2016, burning 1,097,118 hectares inside the region. The largest was Bamafélé in November 2025, with 26,616 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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
1,097,118ha
Since 2016
Of the region
8.9%
123,358 km²
fires
340
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
81
of 129
Largest fire
26,616ha
Bamafélé · 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 Moderate 38° · 27 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 36° · 30 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 36° · 30 % · 28 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 35° · 26 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 34° · 23 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 20 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 35° · 21 % · 23 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 36° · 30 % · 28 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. Koussané 123,223 ha · 39 %
  2. Koundian 71,495 ha · 32 %
  3. Sadiola 69,466 ha · 14 %
  4. Madina 61,133 ha · 10 %
  5. Diakon 37,341 ha · 20 %
  6. Fanga 35,122 ha · 93 %
  7. Guidimé 33,287 ha · 35 %
  8. Soumpou 32,967 ha · 80 %
  9. Oualia 31,207 ha · 9.1 %
  10. Gadougou 1 29,654 ha · 15 %
  11. Tomora 28,011 ha · 14 %
  12. Karakoro 24,360 ha · 27 %

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
202666226,708 Koussané 12,235 ha
2025119413,528 Bamafélé 26,616 ha
20241131,136 Koundian 5,468 ha
20231439,987 Koussané 6,324 ha
20222675,844 Koussané 7,434 ha
20212167,014 Diallan 6,940 ha
20202261,985 Koundian 4,828 ha
20191233,476 Fanga 6,021 ha
201812,373 Koussané 2,373 ha
20172269,464 Guidimé 7,756 ha
20162879,915 Tomora 5,586 ha

All fires in Kayes · 342

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).

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