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Wildfires in Boama

Boama, Sierra Leone, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 10,709 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. Sat 7 Very low 32° · 66 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Very low 31° · 72 % · 20 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 30° · 74 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 29° · 79 % · 19 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 30° · 74 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 30° · 71 % · 24 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 29° · 80 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 82 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Boama: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

10,709
hectares burned
27 %
of its area
13
fires
400
km²

How many times has Boama burned?

Boama has burned 13 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Badjia fire, 29 March 2026, with 652 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,709 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 8,998 hectares, 22 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 5× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
13
fires
6
years with fire
10,709
cumulative ha
8,998
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 Boama

  1. 652 ha Badjia fire, 29 March 2026 1.6% of the municipality · 5,642 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 291 ha Badjia fire, 18 March 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 1,672 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,052 ha Boama fire, 25 March 2024 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 1,045 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,070 ha Boama fire, 13 March 2024 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 1,263 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,283 ha Kakua fire, April 2023 3.2% of the municipality · 1,746 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 1,295 ha Boama fire, 15 April 2022 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,287 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,346 ha Boama fire, 14 April 2022 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,337 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 916 ha Boama fire, 14 April 2022 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,410 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 116 ha Simbaru fire, 14 April 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 6,054 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 252 ha Badjia fire, March 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 1,837 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 1,183 ha Boama fire, March 2018 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,799 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 12 ha Bagbwe(Bagbe) fire, March 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,201 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,241 ha Boama fire, April 2016 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,322 ha in total · 13 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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