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Wildfires in Lower Banta

Lower Banta, Sierra Leone, has had 24 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 19,384 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 39% 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 1 Very low 32° · 63 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 68 % · 21 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 73 % · 25 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 70 % · 24 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 65 % · 21 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 67 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 32° · 64 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 31° · 71 % · 28 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

19,384
hectares burned
39 %
of its area
24
fires
501
km²

How many times has Lower Banta burned?

Lower Banta has burned 24 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Lower Banta fire, April 2026, with 812 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 19,384 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,094 hectares, 32 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 5× 26
24
fires
9
years with fire
19,384
cumulative ha
16,094
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 Lower Banta

  1. 812 ha Lower Banta fire, April 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,093 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 144 ha Dasse fire, 25 March 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 1,176 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 1,552 ha Lower Banta fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,834 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 1,569 ha Lower Banta fire, 19 March 2026 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,559 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 814 ha Lower Banta fire, 15 March 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,099 ha in total · 27 days
  6. 1,437 ha Lower Banta fire, 20 March 2025 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 1,428 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 617 ha Bagruwa fire, 20 March 2025 1.2% of the municipality · 1,640 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 1,252 ha Lower Banta fire, 7 March 2025 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,245 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 348 ha Imperri fire, 6 March 2025 0.7% of the municipality · 3,070 ha in total · 17 days
  10. 1,057 ha Lower Banta fire, 30 March 2024 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,050 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 1,456 ha Lower Banta fire, 23 March 2024 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 1,446 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 1,213 ha Lower Banta fire, 23 March 2024 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,439 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 32 ha Bagruwa fire, 23 March 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 1,843 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 230 ha Bagruwa fire, 22 March 2024 0.5% of the municipality · 2,637 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 372 ha Bumpe Ngao fire, April 2023 0.7% of the municipality · 2,262 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 1,077 ha Lower Banta fire, April 2023 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,822 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 611 ha Lower Banta fire, March 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,102 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 563 ha Bagruwa fire, March 2021 1.1% of the municipality · 1,237 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 148 ha Dasse fire, April 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 1,287 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 1,278 ha Lower Banta fire, March 2020 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 1,270 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 1,178 ha Lower Banta fire, April 2019 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,170 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 160 ha Bagruwa fire, 8 April 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 3,579 ha in total · 10 days
  23. 885 ha Lower Banta fire, April 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,277 ha in total · 14 days
  24. 579 ha Lower Banta fire, March 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,182 ha in total · 8 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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