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Wildfires in Gorama Mende

Gorama Mende, Sierra Leone, has had 45 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 49,331 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 74% 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 29° · 68 % · 24 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 68 % · 28 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 65 % · 18 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 65 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 29° · 68 % · 35 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 30° · 62 % · 25 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 29° · 78 % · 21 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

49,331
hectares burned
74 %
of its area
45
fires
663
km²

How many times has Gorama Mende burned?

Gorama Mende has burned 45 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Gorama Mende fire, 30 March 2026, with 1,147 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 49,331 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 31,454 hectares, 47 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 10× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7. 6× 22
  8. 7× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 12× 26
45
fires
9
years with fire
49,331
cumulative ha
31,454
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 Mende

  1. 1,147 ha Gorama Mende fire, 30 March 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,140 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 820 ha Komboya fire, March 2026 1.2% of the municipality · 1,960 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 923 ha Gorama Mende fire, 29 March 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,168 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1,541 ha Gorama Mende fire, 29 March 2026 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,933 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 1,646 ha Gorama Mende fire, 29 March 2026 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,635 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 1,629 ha Gorama Mende fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,806 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 302 ha Gorama Kono fire, 25 March 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 4,492 ha in total · 19 days
  8. 1,600 ha Gorama Mende fire, 15 March 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,590 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 1,174 ha Gorama Mende fire, 15 March 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,166 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 1,006 ha Gorama Mende fire, 14 March 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,000 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 1,224 ha Gorama Mende fire, 14 March 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,217 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 1,216 ha Wandor fire, 13 March 2026 1.8% of the municipality · 4,308 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 1,107 ha Gorama Mende fire, April 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,113 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 49 ha Nimiyama fire, April 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,701 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 186 ha Kunike fire, 20 March 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 2,179 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 1,043 ha Gorama Mende fire, 19 March 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,036 ha in total · 10 days
  17. 729 ha Kunike fire, 19 March 2023 1.1% of the municipality · 1,906 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 966 ha Gorama Mende fire, 14 March 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,183 ha in total · 14 days
  19. 122 ha Wandor fire, 12 March 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 1,301 ha in total · 15 days
  20. 404 ha Wandor fire, 12 March 2023 0.6% of the municipality · 2,010 ha in total · 15 days
  21. 305 ha Nimiyama fire, 14 April 2022 0.5% of the municipality · 1,115 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 0 ha Valunia fire, 14 April 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,259 ha in total · 10 days
  23. 1,543 ha Gorama Mende fire, 10 April 2022 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,867 ha in total · 1 day
  24. 1,058 ha Gorama Mende fire, 10 April 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,051 ha in total · 8 days
  25. 1,199 ha Gorama Mende fire, 20 March 2022 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,191 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 1,104 ha Gorama Mende fire, 19 March 2022 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,097 ha in total · 6 days
  27. 834 ha Gorama Mende fire, 16 March 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,164 ha in total · 6 days
  28. 1,104 ha Gorama Mende fire, 15 March 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,097 ha in total · 10 days
  29. 3,603 ha Gorama Mende fire, 14 March 2020 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 3,807 ha in total · 11 days
  30. 2,445 ha Gorama Mende fire, 13 March 2020 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 2,430 ha in total · 12 days
  31. 166 ha Wandor fire, March 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 3,032 ha in total · 15 days
  32. 0 ha Dodo fire, March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 3,204 ha in total · 21 days
  33. 1,178 ha Gorama Mende fire, March 2018 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,170 ha in total · 10 days
  34. 81 ha Kunike fire, 23 March 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 2,442 ha in total · 3 days
  35. 1,979 ha Gorama Mende fire, March 2017 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,988 ha in total · 4 days
  36. 996 ha Gorama Mende fire, April 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,206 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 233 ha Komboya fire, 1 April 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 2,361 ha in total · 7 days
  38. 80 ha Nimiyama fire, 28 March 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,070 ha in total · 13 days
  39. 1,448 ha Gorama Mende fire, 28 March 2016 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,447 ha in total · 13 days
  40. 204 ha Valunia fire, 27 March 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 1,182 ha in total · 13 days
  41. 2,951 ha Gorama Mende fire, 27 March 2016 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 2,932 ha in total · 11 days
  42. 2,493 ha Gorama Mende fire, 27 March 2016 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 2,476 ha in total · 15 days
  43. 1,791 ha Gorama Mende fire, 27 March 2016 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 1,783 ha in total · 3 days
  44. 1 ha Wandor fire, March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,895 ha in total · 11 days
  45. 3,702 ha Gorama Mende fire, 27 March 2016 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 3,721 ha in total · 14 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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