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Wildfires in Badjia

Badjia, Sierra Leone, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 15,284 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 79% 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. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 75 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Very low 30° · 76 % · 26 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Very low 29° · 77 % · 19 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Very low 30° · 71 % · 19 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Very low 30° · 72 % · 21 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Very low 30° · 75 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 75 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Very low 31° · 72 % · 26 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 Badjia: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

15,284
hectares burned
79 %
of its area
16
fires
194
km²

How many times has Badjia burned?

Badjia has burned 16 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Simbaru fire, March 2026, with 385 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 15,284 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,003 hectares, 52 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 5× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
16
fires
7
years with fire
15,284
cumulative ha
10,003
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 Sierra Leone

Fires that entered Badjia

  1. 385 ha Simbaru fire, March 2026 2.0% of the municipality · 1,421 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 4,926 ha Badjia fire, 29 March 2026 where it started 25% of the municipality · 5,642 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 576 ha Badjia fire, 19 March 2026 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,014 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 1,391 ha Badjia fire, 18 March 2026 where it started 7.2% of the municipality · 1,672 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 186 ha Boama fire, 13 March 2024 1.0% of the municipality · 1,263 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 28 ha Boama fire, 14 April 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 1,410 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 239 ha Simbaru fire, 14 April 2022 1.2% of the municipality · 6,054 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 1,660 ha Badjia fire, April 2022 where it started 8.6% of the municipality · 2,955 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 175 ha Komboya fire, 10 April 2022 0.9% of the municipality · 1,813 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 1,597 ha Badjia fire, March 2022 where it started 8.2% of the municipality · 1,837 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 1,349 ha Badjia fire, March 2021 where it started 7.0% of the municipality · 1,340 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 3 ha Simbaru fire, 11 April 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,044 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 468 ha Boama fire, March 2018 2.4% of the municipality · 1,799 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 589 ha Bagbwe(Bagbe) fire, March 2018 3.0% of the municipality · 1,201 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 403 ha Simbaru fire, April 2016 2.1% of the municipality · 1,519 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 1,310 ha Badjia fire, April 2016 where it started 6.8% of the municipality · 1,764 ha in total · 12 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/openAfrica, geoBoundaries (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). 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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