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Wildfires in Kamajei

Kamajei, Sierra Leone, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 21,199 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 47% 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.

These figures leave out one page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 7 Very low 32° · 61 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Very low 31° · 73 % · 19 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 30° · 74 % · 18 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 30° · 77 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 31° · 69 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 30° · 71 % · 21 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 30° · 72 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 73 % · 26 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Kamajei: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

21,199
hectares burned
47 %
of its area
20
fires
450
km²

How many times has Kamajei burned?

Kamajei has burned 20 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Kamajei fire, 29 March 2026, with 3,256 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 21,199 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,160 hectares, 36 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 5× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
20
fires
7
years with fire
21,199
cumulative ha
16,160
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 Kamajei

  1. 3,256 ha Kamajei fire, 29 March 2026 where it started 7.2% of the municipality · 3,235 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 303 ha Kowa fire, 28 March 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 3,292 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 11 ha Dasse fire, 21 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 4,114 ha in total · 21 days
  4. 6,622 ha Kamajei fire, 15 March 2026 where it started 15% of the municipality · 5,603 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 116 ha Valunia fire, 14 March 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 1,394 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 178 ha Valunia fire, 6 April 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 1,322 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,311 ha Kamajei fire, April 2023 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 1,303 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 480 ha Kori fire, 4 April 2023 1.1% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 350 ha Valunia fire, 9 April 2022 0.8% of the municipality · 1,142 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 970 ha Kamajei fire, April 2022 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,019 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 31 ha Valunia fire, 5 April 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 1,213 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 1,685 ha Kamajei fire, March 2022 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 3,789 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 479 ha Kori fire, January 2022 1.1% of the municipality · 1,131 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 1,595 ha Kamajei fire, April 2019 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 1,585 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 2,170 ha Valunia fire, 1 March 2019 4.8% of the municipality · 7,775 ha in total · 21 days
  16. 487 ha Kori fire, March 2018 1.1% of the municipality · 1,035 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 1,329 ha Kamajei fire, 5 April 2017 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,387 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 976 ha Kamajei fire, 1 April 2017 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,142 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 1,027 ha Kamajei fire, April 2016 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,184 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 3,722 ha Kamajei fire, March 2016 where it started 8.3% of the municipality · 3,841 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 722 ha Valunia fire, 27 March 2016 1.6% of the municipality · 1,883 ha in total · 10 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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