Wildfires in Burkina Faso
Situation over the last 30 days
143 fires detected in Burkina Faso over the last 30 days, totalling 57,155 hectares of cumulative footprint. The latest satellite detection (NASA FIRMS) dates from October 21 at 05:26 PM.
The savannas in Burkina Faso burn every dry season, over huge areas but with fast, low-intensity grass fires, largely lit for farming and grazing. Detections are numerous; destructive forest fires are rare.
- Soum (BF)from October 19 at 01:46 PM to October 21 at 05:26 PM12,146 ha
- Séno (BF)from October 17 at 03:05 AM to October 21 at 05:24 PM9,548 ha
- Oudalan (BF)from October 14 at 02:49 PM to October 21 at 05:26 PM7,560 ha
- Namentenga (BF)from October 21 at 02:38 PM to October 21 at 05:24 PM1,542 ha
- Komondjari (BF)from October 19 at 12:06 PM to October 21 at 05:24 PM1,335 ha
- Nayala (BF)from October 11 at 03:46 PM to October 21 at 04:18 PM1,214 ha
- Séno (BF)from October 20 at 02:26 PM to October 21 at 04:13 AM1,056 ha
- Komondjari (BF)from October 20 at 01:25 PM to October 21 at 05:24 PM928 ha
- Loroum (BF)from October 21 at 12:46 PM to October 21 at 05:26 PM799 ha
- Sanmatenga (BF)from October 20 at 03:40 PM to October 21 at 05:24 PM751 ha
- Komondjari (BF)from October 16 at 03:16 PM to October 19 at 05:46 PM744 ha
- Kossi (BF)from October 16 at 03:16 PM to October 21 at 04:18 PM714 ha
- Tapoa (BF)from October 16 at 03:16 PM to October 21 at 05:24 PM711 ha
- Tuy (BF)from October 14 at 04:31 PM to October 21 at 04:18 PM576 ha
- Nayala (BF)from October 18 at 03:33 PM to October 21 at 04:18 PM574 ha
- Gourma (BF)from October 16 at 03:16 PM to October 21 at 05:24 PM554 ha
- Tapoa (BF)from October 14 at 03:08 PM to October 21 at 03:57 PM501 ha
- Poni (BF)from October 17 at 02:55 PM to October 21 at 04:18 PM455 ha
- Séno (BF)from October 19 at 03:09 AM to October 20 at 03:47 AM455 ha
- Koulpélogo (BF)from October 21 at 02:22 PM to October 21 at 04:18 PM400 ha
- Komondjari (BF)from October 20 at 03:25 PM to October 21 at 03:23 PM392 ha
- Séno (BF)from October 19 at 12:26 PM to October 20 at 03:40 PM391 ha
- Gourma (BF)from October 19 at 01:55 PM to October 21 at 04:18 PM372 ha
- Mouhoun (BF)from October 16 at 03:16 PM to October 21 at 03:23 PM364 ha
- Sanmatenga (BF)from October 20 at 02:16 PM to October 20 at 04:18 PM349 ha
- Oudalan (BF)from October 9 at 02:44 PM to October 9 at 04:22 PM349 ha
- Komondjari (BF)from October 16 at 02:32 PM to October 16 at 05:31 PM326 ha
- Tapoa (BF)from October 20 at 02:05 PM to October 20 at 03:40 PM305 ha
- Séno (BF)from October 20 at 05:46 PM to October 21 at 05:24 PM303 ha
- Nayala (BF)from October 21 at 01:06 PM to October 21 at 05:24 PM302 ha
- Loroum (BF)from October 21 at 01:36 PM to October 21 at 04:18 PM286 ha
- Kossi (BF)from October 16 at 03:53 PM to October 16 at 05:31 PM282 ha
- Kossi (BF)from October 17 at 02:55 PM to October 20 at 04:18 PM255 ha
- Poni (BF)from October 14 at 05:54 PM to October 19 at 02:55 PM254 ha
- Kompienga (BF)from October 20 at 02:55 PM to October 21 at 05:24 PM240 ha
- Séno (BF)from October 20 at 06:06 PM to October 21 at 03:57 PM232 ha
- Kossi (BF)from October 19 at 01:26 PM to October 19 at 05:46 PM215 ha
- Houet (BF)from October 16 at 03:53 PM to October 20 at 02:55 PM208 ha
- Oudalan (BF)from September 27 at 03:08 PM to September 27 at 04:12 PM200 ha
- Houet (BF)from October 19 at 03:16 PM to October 21 at 03:23 PM193 ha
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These figures come from satellite thermal detection and are not an official tally: only the emergency services of the country concerned are authoritative. The detected footprint overstates the area actually burnt, a pixel counting whole (375 m for VIIRS, 1 km for MODIS) when only an edge burns. A freshly detected fire may not yet carry a place name and will then not appear in this list, though it is already on the map.
Learn more: what a forest fire is and how satellites detect it
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