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Wildfires in Kaiyamba

Kaiyamba, Sierra Leone, has had 24 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 18,971 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 40% 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. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 71 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 72 % · 20 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 82 % · 19 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 74 % · 21 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 75 % · 22 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 71 % · 23 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 67 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 32° · 70 % · 25 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

18,971
hectares burned
40 %
of its area
24
fires
479
km²

How many times has Kaiyamba burned?

Kaiyamba has burned 24 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Bagruwa fire, 2 April 2026, with 1,367 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 18,971 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,315 hectares, 32 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 5× 26
24
fires
9
years with fire
18,971
cumulative ha
15,315
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 Kaiyamba

  1. 1,367 ha Bagruwa fire, 2 April 2026 2.8% of the municipality · 1,493 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 93 ha Fakunya fire, 1 April 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 1,118 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 689 ha Bagruwa fire, 29 March 2026 1.4% of the municipality · 4,332 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 1,015 ha Kaiyamba fire, March 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,008 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 51 ha Bagruwa fire, 24 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,566 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 749 ha Kaiyamba fire, March 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,047 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,109 ha Kaiyamba fire, March 2024 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,102 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 9 ha Bagruwa fire, 28 April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,005 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,033 ha Kaiyamba fire, 6 April 2023 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,027 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 1,947 ha Kaiyamba fire, 6 April 2023 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 1,935 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 251 ha Fakunya fire, April 2023 0.5% of the municipality · 1,431 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 675 ha Kaiyamba fire, 25 March 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,079 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 1,470 ha Kaiyamba fire, 18 March 2022 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,463 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 23 ha Fakunya fire, April 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,062 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 377 ha Fakunya fire, April 2018 0.8% of the municipality · 3,442 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 913 ha Kaiyamba fire, 11 April 2017 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,053 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 1,714 ha Kaiyamba fire, 11 April 2017 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 3,314 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 149 ha Fakunya fire, April 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 2,259 ha in total · 8 days
  19. 644 ha Bagruwa fire, 10 April 2017 1.3% of the municipality · 6,924 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 580 ha Bagruwa fire, 2 April 2016 1.2% of the municipality · 2,712 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 3 ha Bagruwa fire, 2 April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,072 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 1,044 ha Kaiyamba fire, 27 March 2016 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,037 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 1,510 ha Kaiyamba fire, 27 March 2016 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,501 ha in total · 10 days
  24. 1,555 ha Fakunya fire, March 2016 3.2% of the municipality · 3,404 ha in total · 17 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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