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Wildfires in Zota

Zota, Liberia, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 5,821 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 13 Very low 29° · 62 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 58 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 30° · 63 % · 24 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 30° · 63 % · 20 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 30° · 67 % · 24 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 30° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 31° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 30° · 65 % · 18 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 Zota: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

5,821
hectares burned
6.8 %
of its area
5
fires
854
km²

How many times has Zota burned?

Zota has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2022. The most recent: Zota fire, April 2022, with 1,020 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,821 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,572 hectares, 6.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
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  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
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5
fires
3
years with fire
5,821
cumulative ha
5,572
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 Zota

  1. 1,020 ha Zota fire, April 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,013 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,420 ha Zota fire, April 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,410 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,231 ha Zota fire, 27 April 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,223 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,183 ha Zota fire, 27 April 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,240 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 967 ha Zota fire, 25 April 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,162 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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