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Wildfires in Gorama Kono

Gorama Kono, Sierra Leone, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 14,308 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 45% 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 29° · 66 % · 21 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 63 % · 24 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 66 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 62 % · 19 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 63 % · 25 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 30° · 66 % · 27 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 30° · 72 % · 35 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

14,308
hectares burned
45 %
of its area
13
fires
317
km²

How many times has Gorama Kono burned?

Gorama Kono has burned 13 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Gorama Kono fire, 25 March 2026, with 4,170 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,308 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,816 hectares, 34 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 5× 26
13
fires
6
years with fire
14,308
cumulative ha
10,816
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 Gorama Kono

  1. 4,170 ha Gorama Kono fire, 25 March 2026 where it started 13% of the municipality · 4,492 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 682 ha Dodo fire, 25 March 2026 2.2% of the municipality · 2,671 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 35 ha Dodo fire, 25 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 5,668 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 989 ha Gorama Kono fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,439 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 738 ha Lower Bambara fire, 15 March 2026 2.3% of the municipality · 2,690 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 347 ha Wandor fire, 12 March 2023 1.1% of the municipality · 1,473 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 109 ha Nimiyama fire, 14 April 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 1,115 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 1,471 ha Gorama Kono fire, March 2022 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 1,652 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 2,177 ha Gorama Kono fire, 11 April 2020 where it started 6.9% of the municipality · 2,163 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 126 ha Lower Bambara fire, April 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 1,177 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 1,415 ha Gorama Kono fire, 9 April 2020 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 1,693 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 1,469 ha Dodo fire, March 2019 4.6% of the municipality · 3,204 ha in total · 21 days
  13. 579 ha Lower Bambara fire, 10 March 2017 1.8% of the municipality · 1,134 ha in total · 5 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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