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Wildfires in Basse

Basse, Gambia, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 4,654 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 28% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Low 37° · 37 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 34° · 63 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 34° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 36° · 40 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 34° · 49 % · 17 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 34° · 46 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 33° · 51 % · 20 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 32° · 60 % · 22 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

4,654
hectares burned
28 %
of its area
8
fires
165
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Basse

  1. 333 ha Wuli West fire, February 2026 2.0% of the municipality · 1,426 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,215 ha Basse fire, January 2026 where it started 7.4% of the municipality · 1,647 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,101 ha Basse fire, December 2025 where it started 6.7% of the municipality · 1,391 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 268 ha Jimara fire, December 2025 1.6% of the municipality · 1,444 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,022 ha Basse fire, February 2025 where it started 6.2% of the municipality · 1,016 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 454 ha Jimara fire, December 2023 2.8% of the municipality · 1,489 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 185 ha Jimara fire, March 2022 1.1% of the municipality · 1,234 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 74 ha Wuli West fire, March 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 1,030 ha in total · 3 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Knippenberg, Erwin, & Moritz, Meyer. “The Hidden Potential of Mobile Phone Data Insights on COVID-19 in the Gambia.” The World Bank Data Catalog (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).