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Wildfires in Foni Bondali

Foni Bondali, Gambia: 22 fires since 2017 burned 22,626 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.4 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: high (FWI 21).

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. Wed 11 Moderate 36° · 27 % · 17 km/h
  2. Thu 12 High 36° · 28 % · 23 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Moderate 35° · 33 % · 15 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Moderate 34° · 45 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sun 15 High 36° · 31 % · 22 km/h
  6. Mon 16 High 37° · 25 % · 24 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Moderate 35° · 38 % · 18 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Moderate 35° · 48 % · 20 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Foni Bondali: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

22,626
hectares burned
1.4×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
22
fires
157
km²

How many times has Foni Bondali burned?

Foni Bondali has burned 22 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Foni Kansala fire, March 2026, with 519 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 22,626 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,228 hectares, 65 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 4× 26
22
fires
10
years with fire
22,626
cumulative ha
10,228
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Gambia

Fires that entered Foni Bondali

  1. 519 ha Foni Kansala fire, March 2026 3.3% of the municipality · 1,051 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,507 ha Foni Bondali fire, March 2026 where it started 9.6% of the municipality · 1,513 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,151 ha Foni Bondali fire, February 2026 where it started 7.3% of the municipality · 1,145 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 152 ha Foni Kansala fire, 8 February 2026 1.0% of the municipality · 3,444 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 1,222 ha Foni Bondali fire, April 2025 where it started 7.8% of the municipality · 1,588 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,343 ha Foni Bondali fire, February 2024 where it started 8.5% of the municipality · 1,335 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 671 ha Foni Bondali fire, 28 March 2023 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 1,126 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 1,815 ha Foni Bondali fire, 5 March 2023 where it started 12% of the municipality · 1,804 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 1,070 ha Foni Kansala fire, 4 March 2023 6.8% of the municipality · 2,343 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 790 ha Foni Kansala fire, March 2022 5.0% of the municipality · 1,432 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 1,498 ha Foni Bondali fire, February 2022 where it started 9.5% of the municipality · 1,917 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,019 ha Foni Bondali fire, March 2021 where it started 6.5% of the municipality · 1,340 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 398 ha Foni Jarrol fire, March 2021 2.5% of the municipality · 1,426 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 1,740 ha Foni Bondali fire, February 2021 where it started 11% of the municipality · 1,729 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 201 ha Foni Kansala fire, February 2020 1.3% of the municipality · 1,984 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 1,271 ha Foni Bondali fire, March 2019 where it started 8.1% of the municipality · 1,263 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 43 ha Foni Jarrol fire, January 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 1,326 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 1,176 ha Foni Bondali fire, January 2019 where it started 7.5% of the municipality · 1,169 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 61 ha Foni Kansala fire, March 2018 0.4% of the municipality · 2,795 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 3,655 ha Foni Bondali fire, March 2018 where it started 23% of the municipality · 3,633 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 1,220 ha Foni Kansala fire, 26 February 2017 7.8% of the municipality · 2,565 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 103 ha Foni Kansala fire, 7 February 2017 0.6% of the municipality · 1,072 ha in total · 2 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).

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