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Wildfires in Niani

Niani, Gambia, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 14,848 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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 23 High 40° · 21 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 36° · 48 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 37° · 36 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 39° · 20 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 38° · 21 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 36° · 29 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 36° · 29 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 46 % · 34 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

14,848
hectares burned
34 %
of its area
13
fires
439
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Niani

  1. 1,659 ha Niani fire, January 2026 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 1,736 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,033 ha Niani fire, December 2025 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,027 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 447 ha Nianija fire, February 2025 1.0% of the municipality · 2,138 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,017 ha Niani fire, January 2025 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,011 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,046 ha Niani fire, November 2023 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,040 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,045 ha Niani fire, February 2023 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,419 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 669 ha Niani fire, February 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,091 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,381 ha Niani fire, December 2020 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,373 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 11 ha Nianija fire, February 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,025 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 1,387 ha Niani fire, January 2020 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,379 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 2,911 ha Niani fire, March 2019 where it started 6.6% of the municipality · 2,894 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 939 ha Nianija fire, January 2018 2.1% of the municipality · 2,953 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,304 ha Niani fire, March 2017 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,316 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).