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Wildfires in Sami

Sami, Gambia, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 12,565 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 25% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 Moderate 38° · 28 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 35° · 61 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 34° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 37° · 33 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 35° · 43 % · 17 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 41 % · 20 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 42 % · 19 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 66 % · 37 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

12,565
hectares burned
25 %
of its area
11
fires
495
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Sami

  1. 1,343 ha Sami fire, May 2026 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 1,365 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,780 ha Sami fire, January 2026 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 1,769 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1 ha Niani fire, January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,736 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,122 ha Sami fire, December 2025 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,115 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,522 ha Sami fire, February 2025 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,513 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,729 ha Sami fire, April 2024 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 1,733 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,939 ha Sami fire, April 2023 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 1,928 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 382 ha Niani fire, February 2023 0.8% of the municipality · 1,419 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 428 ha Niani fire, February 2021 0.9% of the municipality · 1,091 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 1,199 ha Sami fire, January 2017 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,205 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 1,120 ha Sami fire, January 2016 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,114 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).