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Wildfires in Matam

Matam, Senegal: 98 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 5 districts since 2016, burning 318,729 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sinthiou Banambe/Wouro Sidy in 25 March 2021, with 13,177 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

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
318,729ha
Since 2016
Of the region
11%
29,008 km²
fires
98
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 5
Largest fire
13,177ha
Sinthiou Banambe/Wouro Sidy · 25 March 2021
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 High 41° · 17 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 39° · 28 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 40° · 23 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 40° · 16 % · 38 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 38° · 15 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 36° · 12 % · 36 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 36° · 14 % · 33 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 37° · 19 % · 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. Sinthiou Banambe/Wouro Sidy 129,833 ha · 21 %
  2. Vélingara 107,114 ha · 7.4 %
  3. Orkadiere 73,929 ha · 29 %
  4. Ogo 7,852 ha · 2.0 %

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
20261253,017 Vélingara 10,882 ha
20251764,055 Sinthiou Banambe/Wouro Sidy 11,824 ha
2024924,524 Vélingara 4,244 ha
20232361,932 Sinthiou Banambe/Wouro Sidy 4,408 ha
20221346,298 Orkadiere 7,644 ha
2021727,409 Sinthiou Banambe/Wouro Sidy 13,177 ha
2020410,656 Sinthiou Banambe/Wouro Sidy 3,073 ha
20191984 Koulor 984 ha
201812,682 Orkadiere 2,682 ha
2017613,591 Sinthiou Banambe/Wouro Sidy 3,356 ha
2016513,581 Vélingara 3,418 ha

All fires in Matam · 98

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).