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Wildfires in Upper Saloum

Upper Saloum, Gambia, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 6,428 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 24).

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 36° · 26 % · 22 km/h
  2. Thu 29 High 36° · 21 % · 24 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 44 % · 29 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 54 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 33° · 51 % · 23 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 34° · 50 % · 25 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Low 34° · 46 % · 28 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Low 35° · 45 % · 27 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

6,428
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
6
fires
246
km²

How many times has Upper Saloum burned?

Upper Saloum has burned 6 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Upper Saloum fire, January 2025, with 847 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,428 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,326 hectares, 22 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
6
fires
5
years with fire
6,428
cumulative ha
5,326
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 Saloum

  1. 847 ha Upper Saloum fire, January 2025 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 4,110 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 0 ha Lower Saloum fire, January 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 2,081 ha Upper Saloum fire, March 2023 where it started 8.5% of the municipality · 2,884 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 128 ha Lower Saloum fire, February 2021 0.5% of the municipality · 1,051 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 919 ha Upper Saloum fire, December 2017 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 1,019 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 2,453 ha Upper Saloum fire, March 2017 where it started 10.0% of the municipality · 2,438 ha in total · 2 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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