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Wildfires in Dodo

Dodo, Sierra Leone, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 18,473 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 57% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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° · 62 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 63 % · 17 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 74 % · 24 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 77 % · 21 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 70 % · 19 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 71 % · 22 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 67 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 72 % · 24 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

18,473
hectares burned
57 %
of its area
15
fires
326
km²

How many times has Dodo burned?

Dodo has burned 15 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Dodo fire, 30 March 2026, with 1,360 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 18,473 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 14,999 hectares, 46 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 7× 26
15
fires
7
years with fire
18,473
cumulative ha
14,999
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 Dodo

  1. 1,360 ha Dodo fire, 30 March 2026 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 1,351 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,623 ha Dodo fire, 30 March 2026 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 1,613 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,427 ha Dodo fire, 30 March 2026 where it started 7.4% of the municipality · 4,409 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 175 ha Dodo fire, 30 March 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,032 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 5,582 ha Dodo fire, 29 March 2026 where it started 17% of the municipality · 5,668 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 557 ha Dodo fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,671 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 1,304 ha Dodo fire, 17 March 2026 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 1,296 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 108 ha Wandor fire, 18 March 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 1,473 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 285 ha Simbaru fire, 14 April 2022 0.9% of the municipality · 6,054 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 205 ha Kandu Leppiama fire, March 2021 0.6% of the municipality · 1,097 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 38 ha Lower Bambara fire, April 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,177 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 1,002 ha Dodo fire, March 2020 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,035 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 638 ha Simbaru fire, 12 April 2019 2.0% of the municipality · 1,368 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 1,610 ha Dodo fire, March 2019 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 3,204 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 1,558 ha Dodo fire, March 2017 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 1,698 ha in total · 6 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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