Wildfires in Fatick
Fatick, Senegal: 5 fires with a page have entered 1 of its 9 districts since 2016, burning 13,768 hectares inside the region. The largest was Toubakouta in January 2018, with 3,797 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).
Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 13,768ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.9%
- 7,092 km²
- fires
- 5
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 9
- Largest fire
- 3,797ha
- Toubakouta · January 2018
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Moderate 36° · 37 % · 27 km/h
- Sun 25 Moderate 36° · 42 % · 20 km/h
- Mon 26 Moderate 38° · 31 % · 25 km/h
- Tue 27 Moderate 38° · 29 % · 24 km/h
- Wed 28 Moderate 36° · 24 % · 34 km/h
- Thu 29 High 36° · 17 % · 34 km/h
- Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 41 % · 31 km/h
- Sat 31 Low 34° · 50 % · 27 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Toubakouta 13,768 ha · 9.5 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 5×Toubakouta13,768 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 3,797 haToubakoutaJanuary 2018 · 4 days
- 2,658 haToubakoutaFebruary 2020 · 5 days
- 2,556 haToubakoutaApril 2023 · 4 days
- 2,461 haToubakouta3 February 2017 · 5 days
- 2,296 haToubakouta6 February 2017 · 3 days
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 | 2,556 | Toubakouta 2,556 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 2,658 | Toubakouta 2,658 ha |
| 2018 | 1 | 3,797 | Toubakouta 3,797 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 4,757 | Toubakouta 2,461 ha |
All fires in Fatick · 5
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/Government of Senegal, OCHA ROWCA (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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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