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Wildfires in Salala

Salala, Liberia, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 4,308 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.8% 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. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 64 % · 28 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 72 % · 20 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 74 % · 21 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 69 % · 21 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 67 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 67 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 67 % · 24 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

4,308
hectares burned
4.8 %
of its area
5
fires
892
km²

How many times has Salala burned?

Salala has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2019, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Salala fire, April 2025, with 1,294 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
4,308
cumulative ha
22 Apr 2025
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 Salala

  1. 1,294 ha Salala fire, April 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,286 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,152 ha Salala fire, April 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,144 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 192 ha Yeallequelleh fire, 22 April 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 1,602 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,411 ha Salala fire, April 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,401 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 259 ha District #2 fire, 14 April 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 1,013 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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