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Wildfires in Bumpeh

Bumpeh, Sierra Leone, has had 23 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 18,727 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% 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. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 81 % · 28 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 66 % · 21 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 69 % · 25 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 66 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 32° · 64 % · 26 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 31° · 77 % · 25 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 31° · 77 % · 25 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 31° · 77 % · 21 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

18,727
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
23
fires
720
km²

How many times has Bumpeh burned?

Bumpeh has burned 23 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Bumpeh fire, 18 April 2026, with 2,267 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 18,727 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 14,738 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 7× 25
  11. 4× 26
23
fires
10
years with fire
18,727
cumulative ha
14,738
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 Bumpeh

  1. 2,267 ha Bumpeh fire, 18 April 2026 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 2,727 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 1,301 ha Bumpeh fire, 18 April 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,298 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 1,215 ha Bumpeh fire, 18 April 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,208 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,113 ha Ribbi fire, 17 April 2026 1.6% of the municipality · 2,355 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 110 ha Ribbi fire, 6 April 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 1,615 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 127 ha Ribbi fire, 5 April 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 1,067 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,569 ha Bumpeh fire, 4 April 2025 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,559 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 1,075 ha Bumpeh fire, 2 April 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,068 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 1,103 ha Bumpeh fire, 31 March 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,097 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 150 ha Ribbi fire, March 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 1,381 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 1,191 ha Bumpeh fire, 30 March 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,183 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 807 ha Bumpeh fire, April 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,125 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 93 ha Ribbi fire, 2 April 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 1,439 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 3,022 ha Bumpeh fire, 23 April 2023 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 3,025 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 853 ha Bumpeh fire, 22 April 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,038 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 7 ha Kongbora fire, April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,257 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 1,010 ha Bumpeh fire, April 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,003 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 76 ha Kagboro fire, 17 April 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 2,004 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 71 ha Ribbi fire, March 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,034 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 1,110 ha Bumpeh fire, April 2018 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,103 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 320 ha Kagboro fire, April 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 1,099 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 120 ha Ribbi fire, April 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 2,059 ha in total · 16 days
  23. 15 ha Kongbora fire, March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,617 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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