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Wildfires in Wuli West

Wuli West, Gambia, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 21,122 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 76% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 22).

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. Sat 14 High 36° · 36 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 15 High 36° · 35 % · 19 km/h
  3. Mon 16 High 37° · 29 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Moderate 35° · 39 % · 17 km/h
  5. Wed 18 High 36° · 23 % · 18 km/h
  6. Thu 19 High 36° · 19 % · 24 km/h
  7. Fri 20 High 36° · 17 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very high 36° · 20 % · 29 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Wuli West: hourly forecast Today, 22 µg/m³ of PM2.5 (×1.5 the WHO guideline)

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

21,122
hectares burned
76 %
of its area
17
fires
276
km²

How many times has Wuli West burned?

Wuli West has burned 17 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Tumana fire, 2 April 2026, with 580 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 21,122 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,645 hectares, 46 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9. 4× 24
  10.   25
  11. 6× 26
17
fires
7
years with fire
21,122
cumulative ha
12,645
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 Wuli West

  1. 580 ha Tumana fire, 2 April 2026 2.1% of the municipality · 1,456 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,517 ha Wuli West fire, March 2026 where it started 5.5% of the municipality · 1,683 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 619 ha Wuli West fire, February 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,426 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 6 ha Sandu fire, February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,037 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 368 ha Basse fire, January 2026 1.3% of the municipality · 1,647 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 4,277 ha Wuli West fire, January 2026 where it started 15% of the municipality · 4,588 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,104 ha Wuli West fire, 15 April 2024 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 1,097 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,070 ha Wuli West fire, 15 April 2024 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 1,090 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 24 ha Tumana fire, March 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 4,024 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 1,062 ha Wuli West fire, February 2024 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 1,153 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 2,717 ha Tumana fire, January 2022 9.8% of the municipality · 3,479 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,397 ha Wuli West fire, January 2022 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 1,390 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,891 ha Wuli West fire, March 2021 where it started 6.8% of the municipality · 1,881 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 1,302 ha Wuli West fire, February 2020 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 2,302 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 1,199 ha Wuli West fire, March 2017 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 1,228 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 874 ha Wuli West fire, March 2016 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,030 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 1,116 ha Wuli East fire, 4 February 2016 4.0% of the municipality · 2,432 ha in total · 6 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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