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Wildfires in Bagbo

Bagbo, Sierra Leone, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 7,398 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 27% 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. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 71 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 74 % · 21 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 69 % · 19 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 32° · 67 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 31° · 74 % · 24 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 30° · 80 % · 32 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 30° · 81 % · 21 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 30° · 81 % · 24 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 Bagbo: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

7,398
hectares burned
27 %
of its area
6
fires
277
km²

How many times has Bagbo burned?

Bagbo has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2019, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Bagbo fire, March 2025, with 1,317 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,398 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,511 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
6
fires
4
years with fire
7,398
cumulative ha
5,511
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 Bagbo

  1. 1,317 ha Bagbo fire, March 2025 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 1,309 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,989 ha Bagbo fire, March 2024 where it started 7.2% of the municipality · 1,991 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 1,019 ha Lugbu fire, 25 March 2019 3.7% of the municipality · 2,387 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 1,397 ha Bagbo fire, March 2019 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 1,431 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 454 ha Lugbu fire, 25 March 2019 1.6% of the municipality · 1,169 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,222 ha Bagbo fire, March 2018 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 1,214 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/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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