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Wildfires in Neya

Neya, Sierra Leone, has had 63 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 62,898 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 44% 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 28° · 59 % · 22 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 68 % · 21 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 79 % · 23 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 75 % · 29 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 69 % · 31 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 72 % · 39 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 66 % · 27 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 70 % · 25 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

62,898
hectares burned
44 %
of its area
63
fires
1,444
km²

How many times has Neya burned?

Neya has burned 63 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Neya fire, 15 February 2026, with 1,220 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 8× 16
  2. 10× 17
  3. 6× 18
  4. 11× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 5× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 7× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 4× 26
63
fires
11
years with fire
62,898
cumulative ha
15 Feb 2026
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 Neya

  1. 1,220 ha Neya fire, 15 February 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,212 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,404 ha Neya fire, 6 February 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,395 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 2,569 ha Neya fire, January 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,670 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 14 ha Nieni fire, 7 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,729 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,002 ha Neya fire, April 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,029 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,248 ha Neya fire, February 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,337 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 30 ha Nieni fire, 24 February 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,669 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 293 ha Sandor fire, 27 December 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 1,010 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 328 ha Sandor fire, 11 December 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 1,027 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 284 ha Nieni fire, 30 January 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 1,141 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 863 ha Toli fire, January 2024 0.6% of the municipality · 1,511 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 1,131 ha Neya fire, 20 January 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,123 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 1,021 ha Neya fire, 16 January 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,015 ha in total · 14 days
  14. 51 ha Nieni fire, 6 January 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,697 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 1,330 ha Neya fire, 20 March 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,321 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 1,133 ha Neya fire, 19 March 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,126 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 1,331 ha Neya fire, 18 March 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,322 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 1,013 ha Neya fire, 17 March 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 543 ha Neya fire, January 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,053 ha in total · 11 days
  20. 714 ha Neya fire, March 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,090 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 548 ha Neya fire, 18 January 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,717 ha in total · 13 days
  22. 1,485 ha Neya fire, 18 January 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,477 ha in total · 10 days
  23. 829 ha Neya fire, 17 January 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,318 ha in total · 10 days
  24. 937 ha Sandor fire, January 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 1,426 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 1,200 ha Neya fire, January 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,193 ha in total · 6 days
  26. 1,014 ha Neya fire, 5 February 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 1,405 ha Neya fire, 3 February 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,396 ha in total · 13 days
  28. 1,199 ha Neya fire, 1 February 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,192 ha in total · 12 days
  29. 190 ha Nieni fire, December 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,198 ha in total · 9 days
  30. 1,139 ha Neya fire, 11 March 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,132 ha in total · 5 days
  31. 1,910 ha Neya fire, 4 March 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,897 ha in total · 16 days
  32. 2,514 ha Nieni fire, 24 February 2019 1.7% of the municipality · 10,359 ha in total · 32 days
  33. 4,241 ha Neya fire, 23 February 2019 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 4,228 ha in total · 18 days
  34. 943 ha Neya fire, 22 February 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,463 ha in total · 14 days
  35. 1,282 ha Neya fire, 17 February 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,273 ha in total · 11 days
  36. 1,062 ha Neya fire, 9 February 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,055 ha in total · 6 days
  37. 534 ha Neya fire, 8 February 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,581 ha in total · 15 days
  38. 1,204 ha Neya fire, January 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,196 ha in total · 7 days
  39. 96 ha Toli fire, January 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,018 ha in total · 16 days
  40. 1,196 ha Neya fire, December 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,197 ha in total · 16 days
  41. 100 ha Mongo fire, March 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 1,135 ha in total · 5 days
  42. 360 ha Mongo fire, 22 January 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 1,196 ha in total · 6 days
  43. 1,364 ha Neya fire, 13 January 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,355 ha in total · 13 days
  44. 43 ha Toli fire, January 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,091 ha in total · 11 days
  45. 1,223 ha Neya fire, 9 January 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,329 ha in total · 17 days
  46. 1,296 ha Neya fire, December 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,288 ha in total · 13 days
  47. 32 ha Nieni fire, 10 December 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,846 ha in total · 3 days
  48. 1,329 ha Neya fire, 18 March 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,410 ha in total · 2 days
  49. 461 ha Mongo fire, 5 March 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 2,069 ha in total · 10 days
  50. 1,818 ha Neya fire, 5 March 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,806 ha in total · 13 days
  51. 365 ha Nieni fire, 3 March 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 1,040 ha in total · 11 days
  52. 2 ha Nieni fire, 3 February 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,752 ha in total · 7 days
  53. 595 ha Mongo fire, 3 February 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 2,147 ha in total · 7 days
  54. 646 ha Neya fire, February 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,058 ha in total · 7 days
  55. 1,047 ha Neya fire, January 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,040 ha in total · 15 days
  56. 252 ha Nieni fire, February 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 1,085 ha in total · 3 days
  57. 812 ha Nieni fire, 29 January 2016 0.6% of the municipality · 4,518 ha in total · 28 days
  58. 1,059 ha Neya fire, 29 January 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,308 ha in total · 5 days
  59. 1,515 ha Sandor fire, 29 January 2016 1.0% of the municipality · 3,648 ha in total · 18 days
  60. 1,215 ha Neya fire, 29 January 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,207 ha in total · 7 days
  61. 2,055 ha Neya fire, 28 January 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,042 ha in total · 6 days
  62. 1,500 ha Neya fire, 24 January 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,863 ha in total · 10 days
  63. 1,357 ha Neya fire, 24 January 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,348 ha in total · 17 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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