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Wildfires in Penguia

Penguia, Sierra Leone, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 19,463 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 92% 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° · 58 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 60 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 68 % · 18 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 66 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 69 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 65 % · 25 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 65 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 74 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

19,463
hectares burned
92 %
of its area
14
fires
211
km²

How many times has Penguia burned?

Penguia has burned 14 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022. The most recent: Penguia fire, March 2022, with 1,364 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 19,463 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 11,451 hectares, 54 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 6× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
14
fires
6
years with fire
19,463
cumulative ha
11,451
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 Penguia

  1. 1,364 ha Penguia fire, March 2022 where it started 6.5% of the municipality · 1,355 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,042 ha Penguia fire, 9 April 2020 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 1,035 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,697 ha Penguia fire, 8 April 2020 where it started 8.0% of the municipality · 1,838 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 623 ha Penguia fire, 8 April 2020 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,359 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,895 ha Penguia fire, April 2019 where it started 9.0% of the municipality · 1,885 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 229 ha Soa fire, April 2019 1.1% of the municipality · 2,536 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,548 ha Penguia fire, March 2018 where it started 12% of the municipality · 2,639 ha in total · 14 days
  8. 1,162 ha Penguia fire, 6 April 2017 where it started 5.5% of the municipality · 1,212 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 3,480 ha Penguia fire, 6 April 2017 where it started 16% of the municipality · 4,240 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 48 ha Soa fire, April 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 2,562 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 2,277 ha Penguia fire, 20 March 2017 where it started 11% of the municipality · 2,262 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 277 ha Gbane fire, 20 March 2017 1.3% of the municipality · 1,553 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 1,692 ha Penguia fire, 19 March 2017 where it started 8.0% of the municipality · 2,031 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 1,132 ha Penguia fire, March 2016 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 1,166 ha in total · 3 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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