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Wildfires in Bum

Bum, Sierra Leone, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 1,298 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.5% 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 24 Very low 31° · 72 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 63 % · 30 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 76 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 72 % · 27 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 74 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 75 % · 23 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 76 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 71 % · 27 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,298
hectares burned
3.5 %
of its area
2
fires
370
km²

How many times has Bum burned?

Bum has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Panga Kabonde fire, March 2026, with 167 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
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  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,298
cumulative ha
28 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 Sierra Leone →

Fires that entered Bum

  1. 167 ha Panga Kabonde fire, March 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 1,038 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,132 ha Bum fire, February 2025 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,124 ha in total · 1 day

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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