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Wildfires in Jimara

Jimara, Gambia, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 10,889 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 33% 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. Sun 1 Very low 34° · 42 % · 22 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Low 33° · 49 % · 24 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Low 34° · 42 % · 25 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Low 34° · 47 % · 18 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Moderate 36° · 39 % · 16 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Moderate 36° · 29 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Moderate 36° · 33 % · 24 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Moderate 35° · 29 % · 30 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

10,889
hectares burned
33 %
of its area
11
fires
335
km²

How many times has Jimara burned?

Jimara has burned 11 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sandu fire, April 2026, with 17 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,889 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,019 hectares, 21 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 3× 26
11
fires
6
years with fire
10,889
cumulative ha
7,019
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 Jimara

  1. 17 ha Sandu fire, April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,325 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,661 ha Jimara fire, February 2026 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 1,733 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,452 ha Jimara fire, January 2026 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 2,349 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 298 ha Basse fire, December 2025 0.9% of the municipality · 1,391 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,185 ha Jimara fire, December 2025 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 1,444 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,044 ha Jimara fire, December 2023 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,489 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,551 ha Jimara fire, March 2023 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 1,542 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 1,056 ha Jimara fire, March 2022 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,234 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 38 ha Sandu fire, February 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 1,109 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 1,109 ha Jimara fire, April 2017 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 1,122 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 1,479 ha Jimara fire, March 2017 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 1,684 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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