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Wildfires in Ziguinchor

Ziguinchor, Senegal: 44 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 8 districts since 2016, burning 135,332 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sindian in 12 February 2026, with 13,067 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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
135,332ha
Since 2016
Of the region
18%
7,401 km²
fires
44
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 8
Largest fire
13,067ha
Sindian · 12 February 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 Very low 35° · 58 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 34° · 63 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 33° · 65 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 34° · 61 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 34° · 57 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 34° · 52 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 32° · 52 % · 21 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 73 % · 29 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. Sindian 84,776 ha · 57 %
  2. Kataba1 37,112 ha · 19 %
  3. Tanghori 11,384 ha · 11 %
  4. Tendouk 2,061 ha · 2.3 %

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
2026729,901 Sindian 13,067 ha
202526,339 Sindian 3,350 ha
202412,320 Tanghori 2,320 ha
2023412,252 Sindian 5,232 ha
20221029,752 Sindian 7,583 ha
2021617,340 Sindian 5,181 ha
2020513,453 Sindian 3,232 ha
201937,994 Sindian 2,870 ha
201812,299 Sindian 2,299 ha
201739,464 Sindian 3,772 ha
201624,219 Tanghori 2,182 ha

All fires in Ziguinchor · 44

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).