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Wildfires in Kowa

Kowa, Sierra Leone, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 9,760 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 44% 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. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 75 % · 18 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Very low 30° · 76 % · 20 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Very low 29° · 76 % · 20 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Very low 30° · 73 % · 18 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Very low 30° · 75 % · 20 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Very low 29° · 77 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 74 % · 30 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 Kowa: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

9,760
hectares burned
44 %
of its area
13
fires
222
km²

How many times has Kowa burned?

Kowa has burned 13 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kowa fire, 30 March 2026, with 857 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,760 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,755 hectares, 35 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 5× 26
13
fires
6
years with fire
9,760
cumulative ha
7,755
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 Kowa

  1. 857 ha Kowa fire, 30 March 2026 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 1,108 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 133 ha Bumpe Ngao fire, 29 March 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 3,952 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 1,318 ha Kowa fire, 29 March 2026 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 2,626 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 2,951 ha Kowa fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 13% of the municipality · 3,292 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 389 ha Tikonko fire, 22 March 2026 1.8% of the municipality · 7,278 ha in total · 20 days
  6. 766 ha Kowa fire, March 2025 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,089 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 786 ha Kowa fire, April 2023 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 1,092 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 86 ha Bumpe Ngao fire, 18 March 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 1,448 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 150 ha Kori fire, March 2018 0.7% of the municipality · 1,035 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 221 ha Dasse fire, April 2017 1.0% of the municipality · 1,479 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 18 ha Kamajei fire, 1 April 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,142 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 2,038 ha Kowa fire, April 2016 where it started 9.2% of the municipality · 2,025 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 46 ha Gbo fire, March 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 1,133 ha in total · 7 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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