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Wildfires in Kantora

Kantora, Gambia, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,846 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Fri 30 Moderate 35° · 45 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 61 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 33° · 55 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Low 33° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Low 34° · 44 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Low 34° · 45 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Moderate 35° · 39 % · 24 km/h
  8. Fri 6 High 39° · 24 % · 39 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

7,846
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
11
fires
300
km²

How many times has Kantora burned?

Kantora has burned 11 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Wuli East fire, March 2026, with 776 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,846 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,846 hectares, 23 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
11
fires
9
years with fire
7,846
cumulative ha
6,846
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 Kantora

  1. 776 ha Wuli East fire, March 2026 2.6% of the municipality · 4,015 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 4 ha Wuli East fire, March 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,028 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,086 ha Kantora fire, February 2023 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 1,126 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,114 ha Kantora fire, 27 January 2023 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 1,107 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,131 ha Kantora fire, 16 January 2023 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 1,124 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 113 ha Wuli East fire, 10 February 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 1,568 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,090 ha Kantora fire, February 2021 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 1,192 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 2 ha Wuli East fire, January 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,114 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 17 ha Wuli East fire, March 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,307 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 1,074 ha Kantora fire, January 2018 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 1,068 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 1,439 ha Kantora fire, February 2016 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 1,431 ha in total · 3 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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