Wildfires in Trarza
Trarza, Mauritania: 3 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 6 departments since 2016, burning 4,555 hectares inside the region. The largest was Keur Macène in November 2024, with 1,684 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
- 4,555ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.1%
- 69,287 km²
- fires
- 3
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 6
- Largest fire
- 1,684ha
- Keur Macène · November 2024
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Mon 26 Extreme 41° · 12 % · 39 km/h
- Tue 27 Extreme 37° · 7 % · 42 km/h
- Wed 28 Extreme 37° · 10 % · 34 km/h
- Thu 29 Extreme 37° · 11 % · 36 km/h
- Fri 30 Very high 36° · 12 % · 25 km/h
- Sat 31 Very high 36° · 24 % · 25 km/h
- Sun 1 High 37° · 25 % · 30 km/h
- Mon 2 Very high 37° · 19 % · 28 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Keur Macène 2,987 ha · 1.0 %
- Boutilimitt 1,568 ha · 0.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×Keur Macène2,987 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,684 haKeur MacèneNovember 2024 · 1 day
- 1,568 haBoutilimittNovember 2023 · 1 day
- 1,303 haKeur MacèneDecember 2019 · 7 days of 1,491 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 1,684 | Keur Macène 1,684 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 1,568 | Boutilimitt 1,568 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 1,303 | Keur Macène 1,303 ha |
All fires in Trarza · 3
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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