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Wildfires in Tambacounda

Tambacounda, Senegal: 335 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 12 districts since 2016, burning 1,143,722 hectares inside the region. The largest was Missira in 18 December 2025, with 49,792 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out 3 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
1,143,722ha
Since 2016
Of the region
27%
42,883 km²
fires
335
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
12
of 12
Largest fire
49,792ha
Missira · 18 December 2025
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 Moderate 35° · 31 % · 23 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Moderate 32° · 47 % · 16 km/h
  3. Thu 5 High 34° · 34 % · 36 km/h
  4. Fri 6 High 36° · 29 % · 34 km/h
  5. Sat 7 High 38° · 24 % · 36 km/h
  6. Sun 8 High 38° · 19 % · 39 km/h
  7. Mon 9 High 37° · 17 % · 42 km/h
  8. Tue 10 High 37° · 17 % · 26 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Missira 624,159 ha · 73 %
  2. Koulor 141,337 ha · 21 %
  3. Dianké Makan 99,443 ha · 33 %
  4. Kiniéba 74,908 ha · 21 %
  5. Bouinguel Bamba 73,197 ha · 24 %
  6. Bala 58,267 ha · 21 %
  7. Koutiaba Wolof 32,680 ha · 6.4 %
  8. Bellé 12,818 ha · 6.8 %
  9. Makacoulibantang 11,667 ha · 6.6 %
  10. Koussanar 10,782 ha · 3.4 %
  11. Bamba Tialene 6,629 ha · 3.6 %
  12. Moudéri 5,183 ha · 3.8 %

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
202643183,632 Missira 38,738 ha
202556208,315 Missira 49,792 ha
20242585,197 Missira 24,927 ha
20232482,315 Missira 23,555 ha
202232118,852 Missira 18,295 ha
20212388,427 Missira 16,702 ha
20203072,612 Missira 5,675 ha
20192264,222 Missira 7,136 ha
20181439,292 Missira 6,054 ha
201741119,623 Missira 17,536 ha
20162888,584 Missira 10,366 ha

All fires in Tambacounda · 338

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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