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Wildfires in Foya

Foya, Liberia, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 13,810 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 60 % · 18 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 67 % · 21 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 72 % · 25 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 69 % · 19 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 80 % · 19 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 71 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 72 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 68 % · 32 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

13,810
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
18
fires
620
km²

How many times has Foya burned?

Foya has burned 18 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Foya fire, April 2026, with 2,338 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 13,810 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,174 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 6× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 5× 26
18
fires
7
years with fire
13,810
cumulative ha
12,174
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 Liberia →

Fires that entered Foya

  1. 2,338 ha Foya fire, April 2026 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 2,357 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 111 ha Kolahun fire, 1 April 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 1,104 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 923 ha Voinjama fire, 1 April 2026 1.5% of the municipality · 22,988 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 725 ha Kolahun fire, 25 March 2026 1.2% of the municipality · 2,579 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 835 ha Foya fire, March 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,456 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 1,347 ha Foya fire, March 2024 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,339 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 21 ha Kolahun fire, 12 March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,378 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 682 ha Kolahun fire, 26 March 2021 1.1% of the municipality · 1,265 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 16 ha Kolahun fire, 26 February 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,566 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 5 ha Kolahun fire, 22 April 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,369 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 187 ha Kolahun fire, 22 April 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 2,872 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,099 ha Foya fire, March 2019 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,092 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 1,822 ha Foya fire, 6 April 2017 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 1,927 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 73 ha Kolahun fire, 6 April 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,962 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 619 ha Foya fire, 5 April 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,137 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 1,933 ha Foya fire, 3 April 2017 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 2,103 ha in total · 14 days
  17. 375 ha Kolahun fire, 2 April 2017 0.6% of the municipality · 1,056 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 699 ha Kolahun fire, 18 March 2017 1.1% of the municipality · 1,520 ha in total · 5 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/UNMIL, OCHA ROWCA (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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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