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Wildfires in Assaba

Assaba, Mauritania: 45 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 5 departments since 2016, burning 130,318 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kankossa in 14 November 2025, with 23,821 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 43).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned
130,318ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.6%
36,055 km²
fires
45
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
2
of 5
Largest fire
23,821ha
Kankossa · 14 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 Very high 42° · 9 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 40° · 11 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 39° · 12 % · 45 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 38° · 14 % · 45 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Extreme 35° · 9 % · 41 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 34° · 10 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 35° · 11 % · 33 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 36° · 13 % · 30 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Kankossa 128,475 ha · 12 %
  2. Kiffa 1,842 ha · 0.2 %

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
2026510,867 Kankossa 4,552 ha
20251665,045 Kankossa 23,821 ha
2024813,505 Kankossa 2,621 ha
202339,238 Kankossa 6,047 ha
2021511,424 Kankossa 3,910 ha
202024,648 Kankossa 3,453 ha
201724,475 Kankossa 3,293 ha
2016411,116 Kankossa 4,510 ha

All fires in Assaba · 45

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/Princeton University Library (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).