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Wildfires in Jarra central

Jarra central, Gambia, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 8,249 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 53% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).

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 14 High 37° · 28 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sun 15 High 37° · 23 % · 26 km/h
  3. Mon 16 High 38° · 27 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 17 High 34° · 46 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 18 High 36° · 25 % · 19 km/h
  6. Thu 19 High 36° · 23 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very high 36° · 20 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very high 36° · 21 % · 32 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 Jarra central: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

8,249
hectares burned
53 %
of its area
8
fires
156
km²

How many times has Jarra central burned?

Jarra central has burned 8 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Jarra East fire, February 2026, with 748 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,249 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,457 hectares, 41 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
8
fires
5
years with fire
8,249
cumulative ha
6,457
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 Jarra central

  1. 748 ha Jarra East fire, February 2026 4.8% of the municipality · 1,003 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 305 ha Jarra East fire, January 2026 2.0% of the municipality · 1,512 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,025 ha Jarra central fire, March 2021 where it started 6.6% of the municipality · 1,148 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,066 ha Jarra central fire, April 2020 where it started 6.8% of the municipality · 1,059 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,151 ha Jarra central fire, December 2019 where it started 7.4% of the municipality · 1,636 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 2,531 ha Jarra central fire, March 2019 where it started 16% of the municipality · 2,793 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 638 ha Jarra West fire, March 2018 4.1% of the municipality · 1,304 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 785 ha Jarra central fire, January 2018 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 1,319 ha in total · 5 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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