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Wildfires in Lei

Lei, Sierra Leone, has had 31 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 36,392 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 54% 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. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 61 % · 21 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 74 % · 25 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 71 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 64 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 66 % · 34 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 62 % · 38 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 64 % · 40 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 68 % · 27 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

36,392
hectares burned
54 %
of its area
31
fires
671
km²

How many times has Lei burned?

Lei has burned 31 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Lei fire, March 2026, with 575 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 36,392 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 19,098 hectares, 28 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 5× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7. 5× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 6× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 4× 26
31
fires
10
years with fire
36,392
cumulative ha
19,098
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 Lei

  1. 575 ha Lei fire, March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,272 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 773 ha Lei fire, 26 January 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,068 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,387 ha Lei fire, 20 January 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,379 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 3,139 ha Lei fire, 18 January 2026 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 3,120 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 1,135 ha Lei fire, January 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,128 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 2,066 ha Lei fire, 27 December 2024 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 2,053 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,061 ha Lei fire, 26 December 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,054 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 1,634 ha Lei fire, 22 December 2024 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,628 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 199 ha Soa fire, December 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 1,664 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 121 ha Sandor fire, 11 December 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 1,027 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 372 ha Lei fire, January 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,394 ha in total · 21 days
  12. 464 ha Neya fire, January 2023 0.7% of the municipality · 1,053 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 1,287 ha Lei fire, January 2023 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,278 ha in total · 15 days
  14. 2,797 ha Lei fire, December 2022 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 2,879 ha in total · 15 days
  15. 1,168 ha Lei fire, February 2022 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,721 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 1,739 ha Lei fire, 18 January 2022 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 1,728 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 1,055 ha Lei fire, 18 January 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,048 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 66 ha Soa fire, 17 January 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 3,810 ha in total · 15 days
  19. 1,202 ha Lei fire, March 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,195 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 945 ha Lei fire, February 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,284 ha in total · 13 days
  21. 2,506 ha Lei fire, 21 January 2020 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 2,489 ha in total · 16 days
  22. 1,174 ha Lei fire, 5 January 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,166 ha in total · 13 days
  23. 659 ha Sandor fire, 23 February 2019 1.0% of the municipality · 2,348 ha in total · 14 days
  24. 1,224 ha Neya fire, 22 February 2019 1.8% of the municipality · 2,463 ha in total · 14 days
  25. 1,010 ha Lei fire, December 2018 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,003 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 4 ha Neya fire, December 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,197 ha in total · 16 days
  27. 1,096 ha Lei fire, 22 January 2018 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,089 ha in total · 6 days
  28. 1,429 ha Lei fire, 3 January 2018 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,420 ha in total · 12 days
  29. 1,864 ha Lei fire, 2 January 2018 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,852 ha in total · 4 days
  30. 1,214 ha Lei fire, February 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,206 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 1,027 ha Lei fire, January 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,020 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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