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Wildfires in Gaura

Gaura, Sierra Leone, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 2,288 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.7% 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. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 71 % · 21 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 70 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 69 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 74 % · 25 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 70 % · 23 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 74 % · 24 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 70 % · 28 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 70 % · 27 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

2,288
hectares burned
5.7 %
of its area
5
fires
400
km²

How many times has Gaura burned?

Gaura has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2026. The most recent: Gaura fire, March 2026, with 938 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
4
years with fire
2,288
cumulative ha
19 Mar 2026
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 Gaura

  1. 938 ha Gaura fire, March 2026 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,040 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 427 ha Gaura fire, March 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,161 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 80 ha Tunkia fire, March 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 1,057 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 121 ha Dama fire, March 2018 0.3% of the municipality · 1,044 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 721 ha Gaura fire, April 2016 where it started 1.8% 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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