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Wildfires in Masungbala

Masungbala, Sierra Leone, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 9,712 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 31% 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° · 66 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 67 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 73 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 71 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 72 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 65 % · 22 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 75 % · 23 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

9,712
hectares burned
31 %
of its area
11
fires
310
km²

How many times has Masungbala burned?

Masungbala has burned 11 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2019, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Masungbala fire, 23 April 2026, with 1,773 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,712 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,069 hectares, 23 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
11
fires
5
years with fire
9,712
cumulative ha
7,069
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 Masungbala

  1. 1,773 ha Masungbala fire, 23 April 2026 where it started 5.7% of the municipality · 3,112 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 682 ha Masungbala fire, 22 April 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,638 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 1,413 ha Masungbala fire, 24 April 2024 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 1,404 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 1,116 ha Masungbala fire, 20 April 2024 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 1,198 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 1,013 ha Masungbala fire, 22 April 2023 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 1,062 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 163 ha Tonko Limba fire, 22 April 2023 0.5% of the municipality · 1,904 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 1,041 ha Masungbala fire, 20 April 2023 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,034 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 496 ha Magbema fire, April 2023 1.6% of the municipality · 2,034 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 519 ha Sanda Magbolont fire, April 2019 1.7% of the municipality · 1,236 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 596 ha Magbema fire, April 2017 1.9% of the municipality · 1,701 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 900 ha Masungbala fire, April 2017 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 1,081 ha in total · 8 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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