Wildfires in Saint Louis
Saint Louis, Senegal: 3 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 9,272 hectares inside the region. The largest was Thille Boubakar in October 2025, with 3,779 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 62).
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
- 9,272ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.5%
- 19,093 km²
- fires
- 3
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 7
- Largest fire
- 3,779ha
- Thille Boubakar · October 2025
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 11 Extreme 38° · 12 % · 23 km/h
- Thu 12 Extreme 38° · 17 % · 31 km/h
- Fri 13 Extreme 38° · 18 % · 28 km/h
- Sat 14 Extreme 38° · 19 % · 33 km/h
- Sun 15 Extreme 38° · 16 % · 32 km/h
- Mon 16 Extreme 39° · 13 % · 41 km/h
- Tue 17 Very extreme 38° · 9 % · 41 km/h
- Wed 18 Extreme 38° · 12 % · 27 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Thille Boubakar 4,767 ha · 1.5 %
- Gamadji Sarre 4,505 ha · 1.2 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (2,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×Thille Boubakar4,767 ha
- 2×Gamadji Sarre4,505 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 3,779 haThille BoubakarOctober 2025 · 1 day
- 2,861 haGamadji SarreOctober 2021 · 2 days
- 2,633 haGamadji SarreNovember 2020 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 3,779 | Thille Boubakar 3,779 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 2,861 | Gamadji Sarre 2,861 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 2,633 | Gamadji Sarre 2,633 ha |
All fires in Saint Louis · 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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