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Wildfires in Dasse

Dasse, Sierra Leone, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 14,921 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 43% 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° · 79 % · 25 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 78 % · 34 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 83 % · 20 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 75 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 73 % · 24 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 69 % · 22 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 68 % · 20 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 78 % · 19 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

14,921
hectares burned
43 %
of its area
15
fires
349
km²

How many times has Dasse burned?

Dasse has burned 15 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Bumpe Ngao fire, 29 March 2026, with 312 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,921 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,388 hectares, 36 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11. 6× 26
15
fires
6
years with fire
14,921
cumulative ha
12,388
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 Dasse

  1. 312 ha Bumpe Ngao fire, 29 March 2026 0.9% of the municipality · 3,952 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 3,130 ha Dasse fire, 29 March 2026 where it started 9.0% of the municipality · 3,503 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 59 ha Kowa fire, 28 March 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 3,292 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 1,039 ha Dasse fire, 25 March 2026 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,176 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 15 ha Lower Banta fire, 24 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,834 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 4,130 ha Dasse fire, 21 March 2026 where it started 12% of the municipality · 4,114 ha in total · 21 days
  7. 535 ha Bumpe Ngao fire, 30 March 2024 1.5% of the municipality · 1,314 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 193 ha Bumpe Ngao fire, 23 March 2024 0.6% of the municipality · 2,060 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 235 ha Lower Banta fire, 23 March 2024 0.7% of the municipality · 1,439 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 313 ha Kowa fire, April 2023 0.9% of the municipality · 1,092 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 69 ha Bumpe Ngao fire, 18 March 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 1,448 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 1,147 ha Dasse fire, April 2020 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 1,287 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,228 ha Dasse fire, 11 April 2019 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 1,220 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 1,248 ha Dasse fire, 9 April 2019 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 1,257 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 1,268 ha Dasse fire, April 2017 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 1,479 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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