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Wildfires in Illiasa

Illiasa, Gambia, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 8,581 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 23% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 32).

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 High 36° · 25 % · 20 km/h
  2. Thu 12 High 37° · 20 % · 27 km/h
  3. Fri 13 High 37° · 25 % · 20 km/h
  4. Sat 14 High 36° · 27 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sun 15 High 37° · 23 % · 26 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very high 38° · 20 % · 31 km/h
  7. Tue 17 High 37° · 28 % · 19 km/h
  8. Wed 18 High 36° · 41 % · 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 Illiasa: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

8,581
hectares burned
23 %
of its area
6
fires
367
km²

How many times has Illiasa burned?

Illiasa has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2021, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Illiasa fire, March 2026, with 1,385 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,581 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,430 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
6
fires
4
years with fire
8,581
cumulative ha
6,430
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 Illiasa

  1. 1,385 ha Illiasa fire, March 2026 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 1,376 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,318 ha Illiasa fire, February 2026 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 1,310 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1,399 ha Illiasa fire, April 2024 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 1,390 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,891 ha Illiasa fire, February 2024 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 1,880 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,355 ha Illiasa fire, February 2021 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 1,347 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,234 ha Illiasa fire, March 2017 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,227 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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