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Wildfires in Dama

Dama, Sierra Leone, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,400 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.4% 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 27 Very low 30° · 66 % · 21 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 73 % · 21 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 75 % · 20 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 75 % · 28 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 61 % · 29 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 72 % · 20 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

3,400
hectares burned
8.4 %
of its area
6
fires
404
km²

How many times has Dama burned?

Dama has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2021. The most recent: Dama fire, April 2021, with 1,109 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 3× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
4
years with fire
3,400
cumulative ha
18 Apr 2021
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 Dama

  1. 1,109 ha Dama fire, April 2021 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 1,102 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 742 ha Gaura fire, March 2020 1.8% of the municipality · 1,161 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 252 ha Koya fire, 29 March 2018 0.6% of the municipality · 1,556 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 60 ha Tunkia fire, March 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 1,057 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 930 ha Dama fire, March 2018 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,044 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 307 ha Gaura fire, April 2016 0.8% of the municipality · 1,022 ha in total · 2 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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