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Wildfires in Norwein

Norwein, Liberia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 2,090 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.4% 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. Wed 11 Very low 27° · 87 % · 19 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low 30° · 73 % · 18 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 30° · 70 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 32° · 56 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 32° · 61 % · 31 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 32° · 60 % · 30 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 31° · 69 % · 32 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 32° · 60 % · 30 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 Norwein: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,090
hectares burned
3.4 %
of its area
2
fires
610
km²

How many times has Norwein burned?

Norwein has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2023. The most recent: Norwein fire, May 2023, with 1,150 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
2,090
cumulative ha
3 May 2023
most recent

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 Norwein

  1. 1,150 ha Norwein fire, May 2023 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,177 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 940 ha District #4 fire, March 2020 1.5% of the municipality · 1,054 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/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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