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Wildfires in Simbaru

Simbaru, Sierra Leone, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 15,163 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 56% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 24 Very low 31° · 62 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 63 % · 19 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 73 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 71 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 71 % · 19 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 73 % · 22 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 71 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 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

15,163
hectares burned
56 %
of its area
17
fires
272
km²

How many times has Simbaru burned?

Simbaru has burned 17 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Dodo fire, 30 March 2026, with 2,010 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 15,163 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,541 hectares, 46 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
17
fires
7
years with fire
15,163
cumulative ha
12,541
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 Simbaru

  1. 2,010 ha Dodo fire, 30 March 2026 7.4% of the municipality · 4,409 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 743 ha Simbaru fire, March 2026 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 1,421 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 78 ha Dodo fire, 29 March 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 5,668 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 161 ha Wandor fire, 28 March 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 1,297 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 90 ha Wandor fire, 18 March 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 1,473 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 2,725 ha Simbaru fire, 14 April 2022 where it started 10% of the municipality · 3,258 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 3,364 ha Simbaru fire, 14 April 2022 where it started 12% of the municipality · 6,054 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 629 ha Komboya fire, 10 April 2022 2.3% of the municipality · 1,813 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 12 ha Dodo fire, March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,035 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 1,053 ha Simbaru fire, 22 April 2019 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 1,051 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 96 ha Wandor fire, 12 April 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 1,236 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 739 ha Simbaru fire, 12 April 2019 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 1,368 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 459 ha Simbaru fire, 11 April 2019 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,044 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 871 ha Wandor fire, 11 April 2019 3.2% of the municipality · 3,359 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 151 ha Dodo fire, March 2017 0.6% of the municipality · 1,698 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 622 ha Simbaru fire, April 2016 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,519 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 1,360 ha Simbaru fire, March 2016 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 1,351 ha in total · 6 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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