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Wildfires in Guidimaka

Guidimaka, Mauritania: 61 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 3 departments since 2016, burning 141,386 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ould Yengé in January 2025, with 13,667 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 65).

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
141,386ha
Since 2016
Of the region
13%
10,751 km²
fires
61
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 3
Largest fire
13,667ha
Ould Yengé · January 2025
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 10 Very extreme 38° · 11 % · 37 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Extreme 37° · 11 % · 32 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very extreme 38° · 15 % · 33 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very extreme 38° · 15 % · 36 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very extreme 39° · 14 % · 40 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very extreme 39° · 12 % · 49 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very extreme 38° · 8 % · 52 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very extreme 37° · 8 % · 40 km/h

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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. Ghabou 106,121 ha · 32 %
  2. Ould Yengé 22,848 ha · 6.4 %
  3. Sélibabi 12,417 ha · 3.2 %

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
20261121,935 Ould Yengé 3,549 ha
2025935,509 Ould Yengé 13,667 ha
2024717,918 Ghabou 8,287 ha
20231116,855 Ghabou 3,152 ha
20221025,248 Ghabou 7,249 ha
202147,326 Ghabou 2,445 ha
202025,964 Ghabou 4,878 ha
201756,872 Ghabou 2,144 ha
201623,759 Ghabou 2,243 ha

All fires in Guidimaka · 61

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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