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Wildfires in Salayea

Salayea, Liberia, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 6,213 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 24 Very low 32° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 53 % · 19 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 61 % · 19 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 59 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 61 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 58 % · 33 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 64 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 66 % · 22 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

6,213
hectares burned
4.9 %
of its area
8
fires
1,266
km²

How many times has Salayea burned?

Salayea has burned 8 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Salayea fire, March 2026, with 467 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
8
fires
7
years with fire
6,213
cumulative ha
7 Mar 2026
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 Salayea

  1. 467 ha Salayea fire, March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,149 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 20 ha Zorzor fire, 12 March 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,714 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 810 ha Salayea fire, April 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,193 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,102 ha Salayea fire, February 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,094 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,171 ha Salayea fire, 29 March 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,163 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,326 ha Salayea fire, 28 March 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,317 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 1,316 ha Salayea fire, March 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,307 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 2 ha Zorzor fire, April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,050 ha in total · 3 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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