Wildfires in Sikasso
Sikasso, Mali: 17 fires with a page have entered 11 of its 145 communes since 2016, burning 50,559 hectares inside the region. The largest was Garalo in January 2017, with 6,891 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).
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
- 50,559ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.7%
- 72,157 km²
- fires
- 17
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 11
- of 145
- Largest fire
- 6,891ha
- Garalo · January 2017
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Moderate 36° · 31 % · 31 km/h
- Sat 24 Moderate 34° · 39 % · 24 km/h
- Sun 25 Moderate 36° · 31 % · 29 km/h
- Mon 26 Moderate 35° · 31 % · 16 km/h
- Tue 27 Moderate 34° · 30 % · 31 km/h
- Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 36 % · 21 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 34° · 48 % · 35 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 34° · 50 % · 29 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Garalo 14,275 ha · 7.4 %
- Gouanan 10,561 ha · 6.0 %
- Djiguiya De Koloni 7,587 ha · 13 %
- Yinindougou 6,184 ha · 6.2 %
- Nongo-Souala 2,702 ha · 10 %
- Sido 2,479 ha · 2.3 %
- Dogo 2,410 ha · 1.4 %
- Kléla 2,080 ha · 2.6 %
- Wola 2,035 ha · 5.1 %
- Koussan 171 ha · 0.1 %
- Bolo-Fouta 75 ha · 0.4 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 6×Gouanan10,561 ha
- 6×Djiguiya De Koloni7,587 ha
- 5×Garalo14,275 ha
- 4×Yinindougou6,184 ha
- 2×Nongo-Souala2,702 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 6,891 haGaraloJanuary 2017 · 9 days
- 4,787 haDjiguiya De KoloniFebruary 2026 · 14 days
- 3,706 haGaralo23 January 2026 · 11 days
- 3,091 haYinindougouJanuary 2016 · 10 days
- 2,885 haGouanan22 January 2026 · 9 days
- 2,857 haYinindougouFebruary 2026 · 9 days
- 2,660 haDjiguiya De KoloniJanuary 2024 · 5 days
- 2,659 haGaraloJanuary 2016 · 5 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 | 23,612 | Djiguiya De Koloni 4,787 ha |
| 2024 | 2 | 5,139 | Djiguiya De Koloni 2,660 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 2,395 | Garalo 2,395 ha |
| 2018 | 1 | 2,327 | Gouanan 2,327 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 9,301 | Garalo 6,891 ha |
| 2016 | 3 | 7,785 | Yinindougou 3,091 ha |
All fires in Sikasso · 17
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 2,142 haNongo-SoualaMarch 2026 · 6 days
- 2,639 haKlélaFebruary 2026 · 5 days
- 2,857 haYinindougouFebruary 2026 · 9 days
- 4,787 haDjiguiya De KoloniFebruary 2026 · 14 days
- 2,104 haGaralo25 January 2026 · 10 days
- 2,493 haGouanan23 January 2026 · 11 days
- 3,706 haGaralo23 January 2026 · 11 days
- 2,885 haGouanan22 January 2026 · 9 days
- 2,660 haDjiguiya De KoloniJanuary 2024 · 5 days
- 2,479 haSidoJanuary 2024 · 6 days
- 2,395 haGaraloFebruary 2020 · 6 days
- 2,327 haGouananJanuary 2018 · 11 days
- 2,410 haDogoMarch 2017 · 3 days
- 6,891 haGaraloJanuary 2017 · 9 days
- 2,659 haGaraloJanuary 2016 · 5 days
- 2,035 haWolaJanuary 2016 · 3 days
- 3,091 haYinindougouJanuary 2016 · 10 days
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).