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Wildfires in Sowa

Sowa, Sierra Leone, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 9,168 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 39% 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 7 Very low 31° · 74 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 79 % · 21 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 29° · 80 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 29° · 80 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 30° · 71 % · 17 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 30° · 76 % · 24 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 30° · 79 % · 29 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 75 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Sowa: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

9,168
hectares burned
39 %
of its area
8
fires
234
km²

How many times has Sowa burned?

Sowa has burned 8 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Pejeh(Futa peje fire, March 2026, with 1,309 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,168 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 8,080 hectares, 35 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
8
fires
5
years with fire
9,168
cumulative ha
8,080
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 Sowa

  1. 1,309 ha Pejeh(Futa peje fire, March 2026 5.6% of the municipality · 5,856 ha in total · 25 days
  2. 1,633 ha Sowa fire, March 2026 where it started 7.0% of the municipality · 1,622 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 977 ha Sowa fire, 24 March 2024 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 1,025 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 2,761 ha Sowa fire, 7 March 2024 where it started 12% of the municipality · 2,810 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 804 ha Sowa fire, March 2020 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 732 ha Sowa fire, 25 March 2019 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,118 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 701 ha Sowa fire, 25 March 2019 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,097 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 252 ha Wonde fire, April 2016 1.1% of the municipality · 1,161 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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