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Wildfires in Kolda

Kolda, Senegal: 200 fires with a page have entered 9 of its 9 districts since 2016, burning 626,413 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ndorna in 14 January 2026, with 21,297 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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
626,413ha
Since 2016
Of the region
45%
13,806 km²
fires
200
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
9
of 9
Largest fire
21,297ha
Ndorna · 14 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 36° · 37 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 34° · 62 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 34° · 55 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 36° · 40 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 35° · 48 % · 18 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 34° · 46 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 33° · 50 % · 20 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. Ndorna 148,603 ha · 69 %
  2. Bonconto 124,349 ha · 43 %
  3. Mampatim 101,632 ha · 41 %
  4. Fafacourou 98,735 ha · 1.1×
  5. Nianing 52,005 ha · 31 %
  6. Pakour 41,627 ha · 34 %
  7. Sare Coly Sallé 33,799 ha · 24 %
  8. Saré Bidji 17,263 ha · 30 %
  9. Dioulakolon 8,399 ha · 15 %

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
202645172,658 Ndorna 21,297 ha
20251435,937 Fafacourou 5,920 ha
20241336,532 Bonconto 4,553 ha
20232152,781 Ndorna 3,822 ha
20221850,957 Fafacourou 5,348 ha
20211659,966 Fafacourou 8,947 ha
20202371,069 Ndorna 7,827 ha
20192065,575 Fafacourou 6,288 ha
2018719,618 Nianing 4,365 ha
20171435,021 Pakour 3,244 ha
2016926,299 Fafacourou 5,172 ha

All fires in Kolda · 200

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).