Wildfires in Kaolack
Kaolack, Senegal: one fire with a page has entered 1 of its 8 districts since 2016, burning 2,133 hectares inside the region. The largest was Médina Sabakh in January 2021, with 2,133 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).
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
- 2,133ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.4%
- 5,295 km²
- fires
- 1
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 8
- Largest fire
- 2,133ha
- Médina Sabakh · January 2021
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Moderate 39° · 26 % · 29 km/h
- Sat 24 Moderate 36° · 53 % · 22 km/h
- Sun 25 Moderate 35° · 50 % · 22 km/h
- Mon 26 Moderate 37° · 32 % · 25 km/h
- Tue 27 Moderate 38° · 26 % · 19 km/h
- Wed 28 High 36° · 18 % · 28 km/h
- Thu 29 Moderate 35° · 39 % · 32 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 33° · 58 % · 27 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Médina Sabakh 2,133 ha · 3.5 %
Largest recorded fires
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 2,133 | Médina Sabakh 2,133 ha |
All fires in Kaolack · 1
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).