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Wildfires in Ribbi

Ribbi, Sierra Leone, has had 27 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 26,916 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 42% 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. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 70 % · 27 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 74 % · 22 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 72 % · 28 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 68 % · 22 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 66 % · 22 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 32° · 64 % · 23 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 32° · 73 % · 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

26,916
hectares burned
42 %
of its area
27
fires
644
km²

How many times has Ribbi burned?

Ribbi has burned 27 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Koya fire, 18 April 2026, with 21 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 26,916 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 21,677 hectares, 34 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 6× 26
27
fires
8
years with fire
26,916
cumulative ha
21,677
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 Ribbi

  1. 21 ha Koya fire, 18 April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,160 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 479 ha Bumpeh fire, 18 April 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 2,727 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 5 ha Bumpeh fire, 18 April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,298 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 1,257 ha Ribbi fire, 17 April 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,355 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,152 ha Ribbi fire, 17 April 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,173 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 1,791 ha Ribbi fire, 13 April 2026 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,780 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 1,627 ha Ribbi fire, 22 April 2025 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,616 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,103 ha Ribbi fire, 6 April 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,615 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 947 ha Ribbi fire, 5 April 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,067 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 1,240 ha Ribbi fire, March 2025 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,381 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 739 ha Koya fire, 25 April 2024 1.2% of the municipality · 2,118 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 1,661 ha Ribbi fire, 19 April 2024 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 1,651 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 1,130 ha Ribbi fire, 8 April 2024 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,123 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 1,356 ha Ribbi fire, 2 April 2024 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,439 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 658 ha Ribbi fire, March 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,308 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 1,043 ha Ribbi fire, April 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,036 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 22 ha Bumpeh fire, 23 April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 3,025 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 0 ha Koya fire, 4 April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,292 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 2,977 ha Ribbi fire, 19 April 2020 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 2,958 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 1,014 ha Ribbi fire, 17 April 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,008 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 322 ha Koya fire, 7 April 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 1,208 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 492 ha Koya fire, 3 April 2020 0.8% of the municipality · 1,107 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 737 ha Ribbi fire, March 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,265 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 970 ha Ribbi fire, March 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,034 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 2,135 ha Koya fire, 2 April 2018 3.3% of the municipality · 3,669 ha in total · 6 days
  26. 334 ha Yoni fire, 3 April 2017 0.5% of the municipality · 1,297 ha in total · 15 days
  27. 1,703 ha Ribbi fire, April 2017 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,059 ha in total · 16 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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