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Wildfires in Ségou

Ségou, Mali: 57 fires with a page have entered 17 of its 120 communes since 2016, burning 223,101 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ségué in February 2020, with 12,299 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 38).

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
223,101ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.6%
62,306 km²
fires
57
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
17
of 120
Largest fire
12,299ha
Ségué · February 2020
Inhabitants
—

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 High 38° · 18 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 37° · 19 % · 43 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 35° · 19 % · 33 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 35° · 18 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 35° · 18 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 36° · 25 % · 24 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 36° · 27 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 37° · 21 % · 20 km/h

Burning now in the region

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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. Dogofry 71,782 ha · 19 %
  2. Timissa 53,395 ha · 43 %
  3. Nampalari 37,480 ha · 7.3 %
  4. Lanfiala 17,793 ha · 49 %
  5. Sokolo 11,676 ha · 5.2 %
  6. N'koumandougou 7,885 ha · 3.8 %
  7. Farako 5,303 ha · 28 %
  8. Sama Foulala 4,048 ha · 26 %
  9. Souleye 3,705 ha · 9.5 %
  10. Somo 3,447 ha · 15 %
  11. Saloba 2,029 ha · 3.1 %
  12. Bellen 1,269 ha · 0.4 %

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
2026938,356 Timissa 8,657 ha
20252187,152 Lanfiala 8,081 ha
20241135,460 Lanfiala 7,892 ha
202313,937 Dogofry 3,937 ha
202237,851 Timissa 3,598 ha
2021311,558 Timissa 8,089 ha
2020316,951 Ségué 12,299 ha
201912,255 N'koumandougou 2,255 ha
2017413,731 Dogofry 5,137 ha
201615,849 Farako 5,849 ha

All fires in Ségou · 57

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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