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Wildfires in Sandu

Sandu, Gambia, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 15,099 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 45% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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. Thu 29 Moderate 35° · 35 % · 17 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Moderate 32° · 50 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Low 32° · 47 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Moderate 35° · 38 % · 18 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Moderate 34° · 48 % · 25 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Moderate 35° · 38 % · 28 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Moderate 36° · 35 % · 21 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Moderate 38° · 30 % · 21 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

15,099
hectares burned
45 %
of its area
15
fires
333
km²

How many times has Sandu burned?

Sandu has burned 15 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Sandu fire, April 2026, with 1,214 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 15,099 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,589 hectares, 38 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11. 5× 26
15
fires
7
years with fire
15,099
cumulative ha
12,589
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 Sandu

  1. 1,214 ha Sandu fire, April 2026 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 1,325 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 421 ha Wuli West fire, February 2026 1.3% of the municipality · 1,426 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,037 ha Sandu fire, February 2026 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,037 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 295 ha Wuli West fire, January 2026 0.9% of the municipality · 4,588 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,068 ha Sandu fire, January 2026 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,369 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,744 ha Sandu fire, April 2024 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 1,775 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 98 ha Wuli West fire, February 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 1,153 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,867 ha Sandu fire, January 2024 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 1,856 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 1,020 ha Sandu fire, March 2023 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,014 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 1,213 ha Sandu fire, April 2021 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 1,206 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 1 ha Wuli West fire, March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,881 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 1,046 ha Sandu fire, February 2021 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,109 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,104 ha Sandu fire, February 2020 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 1,097 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 1,845 ha Sandu fire, February 2017 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 1,834 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 1,125 ha Sandu fire, March 2016 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,119 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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