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Wildfires in Sonaco

Sonaco, Guinea-Bissau, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 4,468 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.7% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Tue 27 Low 34° · 52 % · 17 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 33° · 51 % · 19 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 32° · 53 % · 19 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 63 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 68 % · 20 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 67 % · 25 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 67 % · 20 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 69 % · 19 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

4,468
hectares burned
5.7 %
of its area
10
fires
787
km²

How many times has Sonaco burned?

Sonaco has burned 10 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2020, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Pirada fire, 8 March 2026, with 379 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,468 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,050 hectares, 5.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
10
fires
4
years with fire
4,468
cumulative ha
4,050
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 Guinea-Bissau →

Fires that entered Sonaco

  1. 379 ha Pirada fire, 8 March 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 1,066 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 91 ha Contuboel fire, 4 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,663 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 48 ha Contuboel fire, 1 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,535 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,095 ha Sonaco fire, 6 March 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,130 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 928 ha Sonaco fire, 4 March 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,811 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,094 ha Sonaco fire, March 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,661 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 7 ha Pirada fire, March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,518 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 46 ha Contuboel fire, 25 February 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,184 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 739 ha Sonaco fire, March 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,111 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 42 ha Contuboel fire, 4 February 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,408 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/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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