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Wildfires in Maforki

Maforki, Sierra Leone, has had 24 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 26,233 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 32% 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 14 Very low 30° · 70 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 30° · 67 % · 26 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 31° · 61 % · 13 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 30° · 68 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 30° · 67 % · 18 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 31° · 59 % · 18 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 31° · 54 % · 16 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 30° · 60 % · 14 km/h

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Smoke today in Maforki: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

26,233
hectares burned
32 %
of its area
24
fires
814
km²

How many times has Maforki burned?

Maforki has burned 24 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Maforki fire, 23 April 2026, with 1,363 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 26,233 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 18,691 hectares, 23 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 5× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 7× 26
24
fires
8
years with fire
26,233
cumulative ha
18,691
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 Maforki

  1. 1,363 ha Maforki fire, 23 April 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,355 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 1,464 ha Maforki fire, 22 April 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,463 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 312 ha Buya Romende fire, 15 April 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 1,260 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 344 ha TMS fire, 15 April 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 2,897 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 1,317 ha Maforki fire, 13 April 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,309 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 1,201 ha Maforki fire, 13 April 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,193 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 1,166 ha TMS fire, 6 April 2026 1.4% of the municipality · 4,073 ha in total · 29 days
  8. 1,269 ha Maforki fire, April 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,261 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 135 ha Bureh Kasseh Ma fire, April 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 1,003 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 974 ha Maforki fire, April 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,493 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 7 ha Lei fire, January 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,394 ha in total · 21 days
  12. 1,947 ha Maforki fire, 25 April 2023 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,935 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 1,618 ha Maforki fire, 24 April 2023 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,608 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 1,267 ha Maforki fire, 8 April 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,259 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 308 ha Marampa fire, April 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 2,152 ha in total · 13 days
  16. 1,126 ha Maforki fire, April 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,446 ha in total · 14 days
  17. 688 ha Marampa fire, April 2020 0.8% of the municipality · 1,686 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 2,970 ha Maforki fire, April 2019 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 3,530 ha in total · 16 days
  19. 414 ha Mafindor fire, January 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 1,205 ha in total · 11 days
  20. 1,520 ha Maforki fire, 22 April 2017 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,511 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 1,243 ha Maforki fire, 15 April 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,235 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 575 ha Bureh Kasseh Ma fire, 13 April 2017 0.7% of the municipality · 1,469 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 913 ha Marampa fire, April 2017 1.1% of the municipality · 1,258 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 2,095 ha Maforki fire, 1 April 2017 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,413 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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