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Wildfires in Mandu

Mandu, Sierra Leone, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 2,419 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% 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. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 66 % · 21 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 76 % · 24 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 84 % · 21 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 69 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 76 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 67 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 73 % · 28 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 78 % · 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

2,419
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
2
fires
206
km²

How many times has Mandu burned?

Mandu has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2019. The most recent: Mandu fire, April 2019, with 748 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
2,419
cumulative ha
22 Apr 2019
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 Mandu

  1. 748 ha Mandu fire, April 2019 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 1,027 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,671 ha Mandu fire, April 2017 where it started 8.1% of the municipality · 1,660 ha in total · 7 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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