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Wildfires in Soa

Soa, Sierra Leone, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 20,305 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 38% 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. Fri 23 Very low 30° · 69 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 68 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 63 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 65 % · 20 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 65 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 69 % · 24 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 77 % · 27 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

20,305
hectares burned
38 %
of its area
18
fires
531
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Soa

  1. 1,186 ha Soa fire, 4 April 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,179 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,160 ha Soa fire, 3 April 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,153 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 705 ha Lei fire, March 2026 1.3% of the municipality · 1,272 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 1,145 ha Soa fire, 26 January 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,138 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 1,101 ha Soa fire, 24 January 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,190 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 361 ha Soa fire, December 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,664 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 134 ha Lei fire, January 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 1,394 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 934 ha Soa fire, April 2022 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,003 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,506 ha Soa fire, February 2022 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,496 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 2,325 ha Soa fire, January 2022 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 3,810 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 1,549 ha Soa fire, April 2019 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 2,536 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 814 ha Gbane fire, February 2019 1.5% of the municipality · 2,961 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 1,939 ha Soa fire, April 2017 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 2,562 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 1,865 ha Soa fire, March 2017 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 2,377 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 850 ha Gbane Kandor fire, February 2017 1.6% of the municipality · 2,879 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 728 ha Soa fire, 29 January 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,102 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 1,284 ha Soa fire, 28 January 2016 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,276 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 718 ha Soa fire, 23 January 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,211 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).