Wildfires in Brakna
Brakna, Mauritania: one fire with a page has entered 1 of its 5 departments since 2016, burning 1,036 hectares inside the region. The largest was Aleg in December 2023, with 1,036 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 51).
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
- 1,036ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.0%
- 33,377 km²
- fires
- 1
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 5
- Largest fire
- 1,036ha
- Aleg · December 2023
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 28 Extreme 37° · 11 % · 32 km/h
- Thu 29 Extreme 37° · 12 % · 31 km/h
- Fri 30 Extreme 37° · 13 % · 30 km/h
- Sat 31 Very high 37° · 19 % · 23 km/h
- Sun 1 Very high 37° · 22 % · 28 km/h
- Mon 2 Very high 36° · 26 % · 37 km/h
- Tue 3 Very high 37° · 26 % · 33 km/h
- Wed 4 Very high 38° · 24 % · 34 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Aleg 1,036 ha · 0.1 %
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 1,036 | Aleg 1,036 ha |
All fires in Brakna · 1
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).
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