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Wildfires in Fiama

Fiama, Sierra Leone, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 6,240 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% 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. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 57 % · 26 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 59 % · 21 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 73 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 66 % · 32 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 64 % · 31 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 64 % · 20 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 59 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 68 % · 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

6,240
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
7
fires
287
km²

How many times has Fiama burned?

Fiama has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Fiama fire, January 2026, with 1,155 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,240 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,543 hectares, 19 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
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  8.   23
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  11. 1× 26
7
fires
5
years with fire
6,240
cumulative ha
5,543
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 Fiama

  1. 1,155 ha Fiama fire, January 2026 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 1,147 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 1,018 ha Gbane fire, February 2019 3.6% of the municipality · 2,961 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,115 ha Fiama fire, January 2018 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 1,108 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 383 ha Gbane fire, 19 March 2017 1.3% of the municipality · 1,327 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 528 ha Soa fire, March 2017 1.8% of the municipality · 2,377 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 942 ha Fiama fire, January 2017 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 1,383 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 1,100 ha Fiama fire, February 2016 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 1,093 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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