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Wildfires in Kédougou

Kédougou, Senegal: 139 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 6 districts since 2016, burning 715,324 hectares inside the region. The largest was Missira in 10 January 2026, with 93,922 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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
715,324ha
Since 2016
Of the region
42%
16,894 km²
fires
139
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 6
Largest fire
93,922ha
Missira · 10 January 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Low 37° · 38 % · 16 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 35° · 45 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 35° · 48 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 35° · 38 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 35° · 27 % · 19 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 26 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 42 % · 22 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 34° · 48 % · 21 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Bandafassi 659,528 ha · 1.1×
  2. Sabodala 29,668 ha · 7.0 %
  3. Bembou 20,153 ha · 5.6 %
  4. Fongolembi 5,567 ha · 4.2 %
  5. Dar Salam 388 ha · 0.3 %
  6. Dakételi 19 ha · 0.0 %

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
202615165,911 Missira 93,922 ha
20251980,480 Bandafassi 32,693 ha
20242269,498 Bandafassi 7,395 ha
20231076,088 Bandafassi 33,955 ha
20221561,837 Bandafassi 10,599 ha
20211468,317 Bandafassi 21,328 ha
2020879,919 Bandafassi 31,392 ha
2019612,869 Bandafassi 5,828 ha
201859,818 Bandafassi 2,582 ha
20171538,601 Bandafassi 8,497 ha
20161051,985 Bandafassi 27,392 ha

All fires in Kédougou · 139

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).