Wildfires in Kaffrine
Kaffrine, Senegal: 10 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 9 districts since 2016, burning 22,071 hectares inside the region. The largest was Missira Wadene in October 2025, with 3,652 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 32).
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
- 22,071ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.0%
- 11,110 km²
- fires
- 10
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 6
- of 9
- Largest fire
- 3,652ha
- Missira Wadene · October 2025
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sun 25 High 38° · 33 % · 21 km/h
- Mon 26 High 39° · 20 % · 34 km/h
- Tue 27 High 38° · 19 % · 25 km/h
- Wed 28 High 36° · 27 % · 18 km/h
- Thu 29 High 36° · 23 % · 19 km/h
- Fri 30 High 36° · 37 % · 31 km/h
- Sat 31 High 36° · 33 % · 30 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 35° · 51 % · 32 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Missira Wadene 11,518 ha · 5.3 %
- Gniby 3,221 ha · 2.2 %
- Sagna 3,199 ha · 3.0 %
- Katakel 2,294 ha · 1.9 %
- Darou Minam 2 1,401 ha · 0.9 %
- Ida Mouride 438 ha · 0.4 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 5×Missira Wadene11,518 ha
- 2×Gniby3,221 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 3,652 haMissira WadeneOctober 2025 · 8 days
- 3,199 haSagnaJanuary 2022 · 4 days
- 2,889 haMissira WadeneNovember 2017 · 2 days
- 2,484 haGnibyJanuary 2016 · 2 days
- 2,390 haMissira WadeneNovember 2019 · 3 days
- 2,300 haMissira WadeneJanuary 2021 · 2 days
- 2,294 haKatakelApril 2016 · 2 days of 2,869 ha in total
- 2,138 haDarou Minam 2January 2024 · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 3,652 | Missira Wadene 3,652 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 2,138 | Darou Minam 2 2,138 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 3,199 | Sagna 3,199 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 2,300 | Missira Wadene 2,300 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 2,390 | Missira Wadene 2,390 ha |
| 2017 | 3 | 3,613 | Missira Wadene 2,889 ha |
| 2016 | 2 | 4,778 | Gniby 2,484 ha |
All fires in Kaffrine · 10
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 3,652 haMissira WadeneOctober 2025 · 8 days
- 2,138 haDarou Minam 2January 2024 · 3 days
- 3,199 haSagnaJanuary 2022 · 4 days
- 2,300 haMissira WadeneJanuary 2021 · 2 days
- 2,390 haMissira WadeneNovember 2019 · 3 days
- 438 haBamba TialeneDecember 2017 · 5 days of 3,069 ha in total
- 2,889 haMissira WadeneNovember 2017 · 2 days
- 286 haVélingaraFebruary 2017 · 3 days of 4,228 ha in total
- 2,294 haKatakelApril 2016 · 2 days of 2,869 ha in total
- 2,484 haGnibyJanuary 2016 · 2 days
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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