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Wildfires in Tombouctou

Tombouctou, Mali: 53 fires with a page have entered 17 of its 52 communes since 2016, burning 194,750 hectares inside the region. The largest was Bambara Maoudé in November 2024, with 18,261 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 94).

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
194,750ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.4%
502,543 km²
fires
53
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
17
of 52
Largest fire
18,261ha
Bambara Maoudé · November 2024
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 14 Very extreme 37° · 9 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very extreme 36° · 8 % · 37 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very extreme 35° · 8 % · 35 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very extreme 36° · 11 % · 31 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very extreme 34° · 11 % · 39 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very extreme 33° · 12 % · 35 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very extreme 33° · 11 % · 38 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very extreme 34° · 12 % · 34 km/h

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Burning now in the region

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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. Gossi 59,199 ha · 6.0 %
  2. Tilemsi 33,851 ha · 4.8 %
  3. Bambara Maoudé 28,465 ha · 8.0 %
  4. Inadiatafane 11,374 ha · 1.6 %
  5. Doukouria 8,769 ha · 7.3 %
  6. Tonka 7,370 ha · 9.6 %
  7. Gargando 7,046 ha · 3.7 %
  8. Soumpi 6,931 ha · 4.4 %
  9. Ouinerden 6,394 ha · 0.6 %
  10. Léré 6,048 ha · 4.5 %
  11. Dianké 5,723 ha · 5.8 %
  12. Hamzakoma 3,570 ha · 1.1 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (2,000 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
2026626,690 Gossi 11,496 ha
20251653,054 Doukouria 5,753 ha
20241658,333 Bambara Maoudé 18,261 ha
2023529,897 Mondoro 16,474 ha
202212,111 Ouinerden 2,111 ha
2020720,299 Bambara Maoudé 5,753 ha
201924,366 Issa Bery 2,216 ha

All fires in Tombouctou · 53

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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