Wildfires in Saramacca
Saramacca, Suriname: 4 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 13,260 hectares inside the region. The largest was Tijgerkreek in October 2026, with 8,696 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).
Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 13,260ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 3.4%
- 3,914 km²
- fires
- 4
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 5
- of 7
- Largest fire
- 8,696ha
- Tijgerkreek · October 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 10 Very low 33° · 55 % · 30 km/h
- Wed 11 Very low 32° · 65 % · 31 km/h
- Thu 12 Very low 33° · 59 % · 32 km/h
- Fri 13 Very low 33° · 63 % · 31 km/h
- Sat 14 Very low 30° · 72 % · 28 km/h
- Sun 15 Very low 30° · 85 % · 38 km/h
- Mon 16 Very low 31° · 60 % · 39 km/h
- Tue 17 Very low 32° · 76 % · 33 km/h
Burning now in the region
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Tijgerkreek 5,104 ha · 19 %
- Calcutta 3,592 ha · 2.0 %
- Wayamboweg 2,860 ha · 3.7 %
- Kampong Baroe 1,167 ha · 1.5 %
- Kwatta 538 ha · 9.5 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×Wayamboweg2,860 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 8,696 haTijgerkreek October 2026 · 36 days
- 1,995 haWayambowegDecember 2024 · 2 days
- 1,403 haWayambowegApril 2024 · 3 days
- 1,167 haKampong BaroeOctober 2026 · 5 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 9,862 | Tijgerkreek 8,696 ha |
| 2024 | 2 | 3,398 | Wayamboweg 1,995 ha |
All fires in Saramacca · 4
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/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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