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Wildfires in Luawa

Luawa, Sierra Leone, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 6,857 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.7% 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 30 Very low 30° · 61 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 64 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 69 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 65 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 66 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 65 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 60 % · 27 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 75 % · 19 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

6,857
hectares burned
9.7 %
of its area
9
fires
709
km²

How many times has Luawa burned?

Luawa has burned 9 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2020, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Kissi Tongi fire, April 2024, with 83 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 6× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
9
fires
4
years with fire
6,857
cumulative ha
12 Apr 2024
most recent

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 Luawa

  1. 83 ha Kissi Tongi fire, April 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 1,129 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,157 ha Luawa fire, April 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,149 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 132 ha Kpeje Bongre fire, April 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 1,113 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 54 ha Upper Bambara fire, April 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,118 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 481 ha Luawa fire, 6 April 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,013 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,028 ha Luawa fire, 2 April 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,021 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 1,866 ha Luawa fire, 2 April 2017 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 1,854 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 1,996 ha Luawa fire, March 2017 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,985 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 60 ha Kpeje Bongre fire, March 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,327 ha in total · 11 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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