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Wildfires in Gbane

Gbane, Sierra Leone, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 8,932 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 24% 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 3 Very low 30° · 69 % · 27 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 60 % · 19 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 68 % · 30 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 65 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 30° · 64 % · 20 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 58 % · 27 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 30° · 68 % · 25 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 29° · 72 % · 29 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

8,932
hectares burned
24 %
of its area
10
fires
372
km²

How many times has Gbane burned?

Gbane has burned 10 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2022. The most recent: Soa fire, April 2022, with 75 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,932 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,577 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 6× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
10
fires
4
years with fire
8,932
cumulative ha
7,577
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 Gbane

  1. 75 ha Soa fire, April 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 1,003 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,463 ha Gbane fire, April 2020 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 1,454 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 774 ha Soa fire, April 2019 2.1% of the municipality · 2,536 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 1,148 ha Gbane fire, February 2019 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 2,961 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,175 ha Gbane fire, 6 April 2017 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,167 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 592 ha Soa fire, April 2017 1.6% of the municipality · 2,562 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,194 ha Gbane fire, 5 April 2017 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,186 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 273 ha Yawei fire, 2 April 2017 0.7% of the municipality · 1,655 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 1,285 ha Gbane fire, 20 March 2017 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,553 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 953 ha Gbane fire, 19 March 2017 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 1,327 ha in total · 4 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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