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Wildfires in Vahun

Vahun, Liberia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2026: 2,453 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 14 Very low 32° · 54 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 32° · 64 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 31° · 61 % · 24 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 31° · 62 % · 24 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 31° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 32° · 46 % · 24 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 32° · 48 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 31° · 66 % · 25 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 Vahun: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,453
hectares burned
6.3 %
of its area
2
fires
388
km²

How many times has Vahun burned?

Vahun has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Vahun fire, March 2026, with 1,024 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
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  11. 2× 26
2
fires
1
years with fire
2,453
cumulative ha
18 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 Vahun

  1. 1,024 ha Vahun fire, March 2026 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 1,017 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,429 ha Vahun fire, February 2026 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 1,427 ha in total · 8 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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