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Wildfires in Gorgol

Gorgol, Mauritania: 25 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 4 departments since 2016, burning 48,777 hectares inside the region. The largest was Maghama in 16 March 2026, with 5,460 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 38).

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
48,777ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.5%
13,876 km²
fires
25
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
2
of 4
Largest fire
5,460ha
Maghama · 16 March 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 27 High 36° · 8 % · 32 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very high 36° · 12 % · 29 km/h
  3. Thu 29 High 36° · 13 % · 23 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very high 36° · 15 % · 30 km/h
  5. Sat 31 High 36° · 27 % · 44 km/h
  6. Sun 1 High 37° · 27 % · 26 km/h
  7. Mon 2 High 37° · 26 % · 32 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very high 38° · 17 % · 29 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Maghama 38,914 ha · 17 %
  2. Kaédi 9,863 ha · 2.4 %

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
2026714,879 Maghama 5,460 ha
202511,239 Maghama 1,239 ha
202434,818 Maghama 2,353 ha
2023918,511 Maghama 3,730 ha
202247,412 Maghama 3,242 ha
202111,919 Maghama 1,919 ha

All fires in Gorgol · 25

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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