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Wildfires in Mafindor

Mafindor, Sierra Leone, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 625 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 57 % · 31 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 63 % · 27 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 63 % · 23 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 61 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 60 % · 15 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 31° · 57 % · 18 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 31° · 61 % · 25 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 31° · 65 % · 22 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

625
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
2
fires
62
km²

How many times has Mafindor burned?

Mafindor has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2024. The most recent: Lei fire, January 2024, with 114 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 625 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 586 hectares, 9.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
625
cumulative ha
586
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 Mafindor

  1. 114 ha Lei fire, January 2024 1.8% of the municipality · 1,394 ha in total · 21 days
  2. 511 ha Mafindor fire, January 2019 where it started 8.3% of the municipality · 1,205 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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