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Wildfires in Fakunya

Fakunya, Sierra Leone, has had 40 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 48,653 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 95% 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 10 Very low 31° · 65 % · 19 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 29° · 75 % · 31 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 31° · 70 % · 19 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very low 30° · 78 % · 23 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 73 % · 24 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 31° · 63 % · 22 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 30° · 80 % · 19 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 31° · 71 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Fakunya: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

48,653
hectares burned
95 %
of its area
40
fires
510
km²

How many times has Fakunya burned?

Fakunya has burned 40 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Yoni fire, 19 April 2026, with 1,191 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 48,653 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 30,172 hectares, 59 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 7× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 9× 26
40
fires
10
years with fire
48,653
cumulative ha
30,172
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 Fakunya

  1. 1,191 ha Yoni fire, 19 April 2026 2.3% of the municipality · 2,390 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 1,568 ha Fakunya fire, 18 April 2026 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 2,556 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 1,047 ha Fakunya fire, 18 April 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,040 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 270 ha Yoni fire, 14 April 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 1,413 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 1,032 ha Fakunya fire, 1 April 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,118 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 2,201 ha Fakunya fire, 29 March 2026 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 2,189 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 750 ha Kori fire, 24 March 2026 1.5% of the municipality · 1,252 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 1,080 ha Fakunya fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,073 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 3,378 ha Fakunya fire, 21 March 2026 where it started 6.6% of the municipality · 3,368 ha in total · 17 days
  10. 1,032 ha Fakunya fire, 6 April 2025 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,026 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 3,602 ha Fakunya fire, 1 April 2025 where it started 7.1% of the municipality · 3,579 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 758 ha Fakunya fire, 15 March 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,041 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 100 ha Yoni fire, 10 March 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 1,174 ha in total · 14 days
  14. 1,869 ha Fakunya fire, 7 March 2025 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 1,908 ha in total · 16 days
  15. 1,657 ha Fakunya fire, 25 April 2024 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,690 ha in total · 11 days
  16. 20 ha Yoni fire, April 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 15 days
  17. 1,249 ha Fakunya fire, 2 April 2024 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,241 ha in total · 18 days
  18. 5 ha Yoni fire, March 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,045 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 2,960 ha Fakunya fire, 29 March 2024 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 2,941 ha in total · 14 days
  20. 1,389 ha Fakunya fire, 29 March 2024 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 1,380 ha in total · 16 days
  21. 1,109 ha Fakunya fire, 16 March 2024 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,102 ha in total · 10 days
  22. 1,189 ha Fakunya fire, April 2023 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,431 ha in total · 8 days
  23. 1,228 ha Fakunya fire, March 2022 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,440 ha in total · 12 days
  24. 412 ha Kaiyamba fire, 25 March 2022 0.8% of the municipality · 1,079 ha in total · 11 days
  25. 308 ha Yoni fire, 19 April 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 1,032 ha in total · 1 day
  26. 1,975 ha Fakunya fire, 19 April 2020 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 1,962 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 1,516 ha Fakunya fire, 19 April 2020 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,734 ha in total · 1 day
  28. 293 ha Yoni fire, 3 April 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 1,403 ha in total · 8 days
  29. 1,052 ha Fakunya fire, 1 April 2020 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,899 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 523 ha Fakunya fire, April 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,062 ha in total · 8 days
  31. 1,129 ha Fakunya fire, March 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,122 ha in total · 7 days
  32. 31 ha Kori fire, March 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,142 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 2,113 ha Fakunya fire, April 2018 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 3,442 ha in total · 5 days
  34. 2,124 ha Fakunya fire, April 2017 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 2,259 ha in total · 8 days
  35. 3 ha Yoni fire, 1 April 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,379 ha in total · 17 days
  36. 1,515 ha Fakunya fire, 1 April 2016 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,505 ha in total · 8 days
  37. 1,649 ha Fakunya fire, 1 April 2016 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,784 ha in total · 12 days
  38. 1,447 ha Fakunya fire, 1 April 2016 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,748 ha in total · 7 days
  39. 1,871 ha Fakunya fire, March 2016 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 3,035 ha in total · 17 days
  40. 8 ha Kori fire, January 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,047 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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