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Wildfires in Kpaka

Kpaka, Sierra Leone, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 2,485 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.1% 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. Fri 13 Very low 30° · 72 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 31° · 71 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 31° · 72 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 30° · 72 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 30° · 70 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 31° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 31° · 75 % · 25 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 32° · 72 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Kpaka: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,485
hectares burned
8.1 %
of its area
4
fires
306
km²

How many times has Kpaka burned?

Kpaka has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Kpaka fire, April 2025, with 1,023 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,485 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,703 hectares, 5.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
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  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
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  10. 1× 25
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4
fires
4
years with fire
2,485
cumulative ha
1,703
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 Kpaka

  1. 1,023 ha Kpaka fire, April 2025 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,827 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 344 ha Mono Sakrim fire, February 2022 1.1% of the municipality · 1,530 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 435 ha Galliness Perri fire, April 2019 1.4% of the municipality · 1,226 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 683 ha Kpaka fire, March 2017 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,112 ha in total · 4 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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