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Wildfires in Gbo

Gbo, Sierra Leone, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 9,558 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 50% 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. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 72 % · 26 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 71 % · 24 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 67 % · 32 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 65 % · 24 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 65 % · 19 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 32° · 64 % · 23 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 31° · 71 % · 25 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 31° · 79 % · 36 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

9,558
hectares burned
50 %
of its area
12
fires
191
km²

How many times has Gbo burned?

Gbo has burned 12 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kowa fire, 30 March 2026, with 258 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,558 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,823 hectares, 41 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 3× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 5× 26
12
fires
6
years with fire
9,558
cumulative ha
7,823
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 Gbo

  1. 258 ha Kowa fire, 30 March 2026 1.4% of the municipality · 1,108 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 1,111 ha Gbo fire, March 2026 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 1,104 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 1,324 ha Kowa fire, 29 March 2026 6.9% of the municipality · 2,626 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 2,128 ha Tikonko fire, 22 March 2026 11% of the municipality · 7,300 ha in total · 20 days
  5. 291 ha Valunia fire, 14 March 2026 1.5% of the municipality · 1,394 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 664 ha Selenga fire, April 2025 3.5% of the municipality · 1,435 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 759 ha Gbo fire, April 2024 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 1,344 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 1,239 ha Gbo fire, April 2022 where it started 6.5% of the municipality · 1,231 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 297 ha Tikonko fire, April 2022 1.6% of the municipality · 1,458 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 348 ha Selenga fire, 10 April 2022 1.8% of the municipality · 1,034 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 66 ha Kamajei fire, 5 April 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 1,387 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 1,073 ha Gbo fire, March 2016 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 1,133 ha in total · 7 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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