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Wildfires in Upper Niumi

Upper Niumi, Gambia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 4,891 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

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. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 44 % · 24 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 37 % · 24 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 44 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 68 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 60 % · 20 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 58 % · 24 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 60 % · 27 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 33° · 59 % · 23 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

4,891
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
4
fires
423
km²

How many times has Upper Niumi burned?

Upper Niumi has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Upper Niumi fire, April 2026, with 1,281 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,891 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,861 hectares, 9.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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  8. 1× 23
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  11. 2× 26
4
fires
3
years with fire
4,891
cumulative ha
3,861
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 Upper Niumi

  1. 1,281 ha Upper Niumi fire, April 2026 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,273 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,348 ha Upper Niumi fire, February 2026 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,340 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,015 ha Upper Niumi fire, March 2024 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,009 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,247 ha Upper Niumi fire, April 2023 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,239 ha in total · 10 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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