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Wildfires in Foni Jarrol

Foni Jarrol, Gambia, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 6,130 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 76% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

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. Sat 7 High 35° · 37 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Moderate 35° · 33 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 9 High 34° · 32 % · 27 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Moderate 34° · 38 % · 17 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Moderate 34° · 39 % · 17 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Moderate 35° · 26 % · 18 km/h
  7. Fri 13 High 36° · 25 % · 17 km/h
  8. Sat 14 High 36° · 37 % · 23 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 Jarrol: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

6,130
hectares burned
76 %
of its area
8
fires
80
km²

How many times has Foni Jarrol burned?

Foni Jarrol has burned 8 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Foni Jarrol fire, March 2026, with 2,610 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,130 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,918 hectares, 49 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
8
fires
6
years with fire
6,130
cumulative ha
3,918
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 Jarrol

  1. 2,610 ha Foni Jarrol fire, March 2026 where it started 32% of the municipality · 2,931 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 13 ha Kiang West fire, 28 January 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,273 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 0 ha Kiang West fire, 28 January 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,755 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 747 ha Foni Jarrol fire, February 2024 where it started 9.3% of the municipality · 1,048 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 430 ha Foni Bondali fire, February 2022 5.4% of the municipality · 1,917 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,037 ha Foni Jarrol fire, March 2021 where it started 13% of the municipality · 1,426 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2 ha Kiang West fire, 26 February 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,439 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 1,291 ha Foni Jarrol fire, January 2019 where it started 16% of the municipality · 1,326 ha in total · 4 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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