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Wildfires in Sanoyeah

Sanoyeah, Liberia, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,249 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.5% 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. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 73 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 68 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 70 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 72 % · 20 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 71 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 71 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 71 % · 28 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

7,249
hectares burned
6.5 %
of its area
7
fires
1,109
km²

How many times has Sanoyeah burned?

Sanoyeah has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022. The most recent: Sanoyeah fire, April 2022, with 1,246 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,249 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,398 hectares, 5.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
4
years with fire
7,249
cumulative ha
6,398
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 Sanoyeah

  1. 1,246 ha Sanoyeah fire, April 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,238 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,136 ha Sanoyeah fire, 23 April 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,128 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 320 ha Gounwolaila fire, 23 April 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 1,149 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,024 ha Sanoyeah fire, 23 April 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,018 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,122 ha Sanoyeah fire, 15 April 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,115 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,315 ha Sanoyeah fire, 15 April 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,306 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,086 ha Sanoyeah fire, April 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,079 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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