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Wildfires in Mopti

Mopti, Mali: 168 fires with a page have entered 59 of its 108 communes since 2016, burning 538,497 hectares inside the region. The largest was Mondoro in 15 November 2024, with 11,399 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 40).

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: 538,497ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 6.8%; 79,753 km²
fires: 168; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 59; of 108
Largest fire: 11,399ha; Mondoro · 15 November 2024
Inhabitants: —

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast

Fri 23 Very high 38° · 11 % · 38 km/h
Sat 24 Very high 38° · 11 % · 32 km/h
Sun 25 Very high 38° · 13 % · 41 km/h
Mon 26 Very high 35° · 15 % · 37 km/h
Tue 27 Very high 35° · 14 % · 31 km/h
Wed 28 Very high 35° · 17 % · 27 km/h
Thu 29 Very high 36° · 22 % · 30 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

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

The municipalities that burned most

Mondoro 95,342 ha · 17 %
Ségué 40,680 ha · 35 %
Togoro Kotia 36,860 ha · 29 %
Diankabou 34,471 ha · 29 %
Kéwa 27,778 ha · 26 %
Soye 26,617 ha · 28 %
Pondori 21,081 ha · 1.0×
Nema Badenyakafo 18,883 ha · 20 %
Diougani 18,334 ha · 8.7 %
Déboye 14,946 ha · 15 %
Youwarou 14,253 ha · 16 %
Timiri 10,489 ha · 16 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

26×Mondoro95,342 ha
17×Togoro Kotia36,860 ha
14×Ségué40,680 ha
13×Diankabou34,471 ha
11×Kéwa27,778 ha
11×Pondori21,081 ha
10×Soye26,617 ha
10×Djenne Commune4,480 ha

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Year	fires	hectares burned	Largest of the year
2026	19	53,301	Nema Badenyakafo 5,088 ha
2025	41	129,903	Mondoro 11,368 ha
2024	13	42,234	Mondoro 11,399 ha
2023	15	46,821	Mondoro 7,073 ha
2022	15	47,431	Haïré 5,636 ha
2021	23	89,614	Diougani 11,205 ha
2020	18	50,221	Ségué 6,295 ha
2019	10	38,514	Mondoro 10,259 ha
2018	5	16,011	Togoro Kotia 4,744 ha
2017	5	13,135	Soye 3,469 ha
2016	4	11,313	Soye 3,308 ha

All fires in Mopti · 168

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).