Wildfires in Louga
Louga, Senegal: 3 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 11 districts since 2016, burning 13,634 hectares inside the region. The largest was Dodji in February 2026, with 7,465 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
- 13,634ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.5%
- 25,804 km²
- fires
- 3
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 11
- Largest fire
- 7,465ha
- Dodji · February 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 27 High 37° · 14 % · 27 km/h
- Wed 28 High 36° · 15 % · 27 km/h
- Thu 29 High 36° · 17 % · 23 km/h
- Fri 30 High 36° · 23 % · 23 km/h
- Sat 31 High 34° · 39 % · 27 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 34° · 46 % · 26 km/h
- Mon 2 Low 33° · 47 % · 25 km/h
- Tue 3 Moderate 34° · 48 % · 25 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×Barkédji6,168 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 7,465 haDodjiFebruary 2026 · 3 days
- 4,719 haBarkédjiApril 2017 · 3 days
- 1,450 haVélingaraFebruary 2017 · 3 days of 4,228 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Louga · 3
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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