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Wildfires in Lugbu

Lugbu, Sierra Leone, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 4,600 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% 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. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 67 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 66 % · 17 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 76 % · 21 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 73 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 70 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 68 % · 28 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 66 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 32° · 72 % · 21 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

4,600
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
6
fires
255
km²

How many times has Lugbu burned?

Lugbu has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2025. The most recent: Lugbu fire, March 2025, with 1,395 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
6
fires
4
years with fire
4,600
cumulative ha
12 Mar 2025
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 Lugbu

  1. 1,395 ha Lugbu fire, March 2025 where it started 5.5% of the municipality · 1,386 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 1 ha Tikonko fire, 28 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,193 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 60 ha Tikonko fire, 28 March 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 1,383 ha Lugbu fire, 25 March 2019 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 2,387 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 723 ha Lugbu fire, 25 March 2019 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,169 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,037 ha Lugbu fire, March 2018 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 1,030 ha in total · 3 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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