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Wildfires in Masimera

Masimera, Sierra Leone, has had 34 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 44,246 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 65% 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 10 Very low 31° · 67 % · 26 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 29° · 75 % · 39 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 31° · 72 % · 21 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very low 30° · 73 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 70 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 31° · 70 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 30° · 79 % · 20 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 32° · 69 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Masimera: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

44,246
hectares burned
65 %
of its area
34
fires
678
km²

How many times has Masimera burned?

Masimera has burned 34 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Masimera fire, 15 April 2026, with 1,431 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 44,246 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 30,600 hectares, 45 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 4× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 6× 20
  6.   21
  7. 6× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10.   25
  11. 6× 26
34
fires
8
years with fire
44,246
cumulative ha
30,600
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 Masimera

  1. 1,431 ha Masimera fire, 15 April 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,422 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 1 ha Malal Mara fire, 14 April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,157 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 455 ha Yoni fire, 14 April 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 4,535 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 5,654 ha Masimera fire, 13 April 2026 where it started 8.3% of the municipality · 5,685 ha in total · 21 days
  5. 3,319 ha Masimera fire, 7 April 2026 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 4,153 ha in total · 26 days
  6. 4,724 ha Masimera fire, 5 April 2026 where it started 7.0% of the municipality · 5,275 ha in total · 29 days
  7. 1,154 ha Masimera fire, 25 April 2024 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,147 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 776 ha Masimera fire, 24 April 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,002 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 0 ha Malal Mara fire, April 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,264 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 1,243 ha Masimera fire, 8 April 2024 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,235 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 291 ha Koya fire, March 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 1,143 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 15 ha Masimera fire, April 2023 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,122 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 97 ha Malal Mara fire, May 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 1,408 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 1,032 ha Masimera fire, 14 April 2022 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,026 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 135 ha Marampa fire, April 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 1,025 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 1,183 ha Masimera fire, 9 April 2022 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,176 ha in total · 18 days
  17. 1,092 ha Masimera fire, 4 April 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,582 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 1,105 ha Masimera fire, 3 April 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,097 ha in total · 8 days
  19. 2 ha Marampa fire, April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,686 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 2,324 ha Masimera fire, 3 April 2020 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 2,304 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 1,148 ha Masimera fire, 3 April 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,140 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 440 ha Yoni fire, 3 April 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 1,169 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 1,357 ha Masimera fire, 3 April 2020 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,384 ha in total · 7 days
  24. 1,060 ha Masimera fire, March 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,053 ha in total · 11 days
  25. 536 ha Malal Mara fire, April 2019 0.8% of the municipality · 1,697 ha in total · 13 days
  26. 1,166 ha Masimera fire, 10 April 2018 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,158 ha in total · 9 days
  27. 1,506 ha Masimera fire, 3 April 2018 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,497 ha in total · 9 days
  28. 1,580 ha Masimera fire, 2 April 2018 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,211 ha in total · 12 days
  29. 1,197 ha Masimera fire, 2 April 2018 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,189 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 1,117 ha Masimera fire, 3 April 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,255 ha in total · 6 days
  31. 3,035 ha Masimera fire, 1 April 2017 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 4,574 ha in total · 17 days
  32. 664 ha Koya fire, 1 April 2017 1.0% of the municipality · 4,312 ha in total · 15 days
  33. 2,376 ha Masimera fire, 1 April 2017 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 2,361 ha in total · 15 days
  34. 1,031 ha Masimera fire, 1 April 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,024 ha in total · 10 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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