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Wildfires in Kongbora

Kongbora, Sierra Leone, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 9,913 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% 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° · 73 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 64 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 80 % · 21 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 76 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 78 % · 22 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 68 % · 27 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 70 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 32° · 70 % · 23 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

9,913
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
12
fires
381
km²

How many times has Kongbora burned?

Kongbora has burned 12 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Yoni fire, March 2026, with 217 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,913 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 8,216 hectares, 22 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
12
fires
8
years with fire
9,913
cumulative ha
8,216
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 Kongbora

  1. 217 ha Yoni fire, March 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 2,398 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 447 ha Bagruwa fire, 24 March 2026 1.2% of the municipality · 1,566 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 412 ha Ribbi fire, 6 April 2025 1.1% of the municipality · 1,615 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 658 ha Ribbi fire, March 2024 1.7% of the municipality · 1,308 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,258 ha Kongbora fire, April 2023 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 1,257 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 536 ha Ribbi fire, March 2020 1.4% of the municipality · 1,265 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 320 ha Yoni fire, 3 April 2018 0.8% of the municipality · 1,606 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 975 ha Fakunya fire, April 2018 2.6% of the municipality · 3,442 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 1,975 ha Kongbora fire, April 2017 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 1,963 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 248 ha Bagruwa fire, 10 April 2017 0.6% of the municipality · 6,924 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 248 ha Ribbi fire, April 2017 0.6% of the municipality · 2,059 ha in total · 16 days
  12. 2,619 ha Kongbora fire, March 2016 where it started 6.9% of the municipality · 2,617 ha in total · 12 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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