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Wildfires in Sulima

Sulima, Sierra Leone, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 19,976 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Sun 8 Low 31° · 49 % · 19 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Low 30° · 56 % · 18 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Low 31° · 53 % · 22 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Low 31° · 46 % · 17 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Low 32° · 42 % · 22 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Low 31° · 56 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very low 31° · 52 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Low 33° · 47 % · 30 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 Sulima: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

19,976
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
19
fires
1,271
km²

How many times has Sulima burned?

Sulima has burned 19 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mongo fire, 17 February 2026, with 902 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 19,976 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 18,046 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 6× 26
19
fires
9
years with fire
19,976
cumulative ha
18,046
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 Sulima

  1. 902 ha Mongo fire, 17 February 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 1,967 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,049 ha Sulima fire, February 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,043 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1,670 ha Sulima fire, 26 January 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,660 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 1,222 ha Sulima fire, 24 January 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,215 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,051 ha Sulima fire, 22 January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,477 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 1,765 ha Sulima fire, 19 January 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,754 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 1,023 ha Sulima fire, April 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,017 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 0 ha Mongo fire, 15 February 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,197 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,116 ha Sulima fire, April 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,109 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 517 ha Mongo fire, 18 March 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 2,917 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 1,192 ha Sulima fire, April 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,184 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 86 ha Mongo fire, February 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 1,786 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 625 ha Sengbe fire, 18 January 2022 0.5% of the municipality · 1,624 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 1,558 ha Sulima fire, January 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,549 ha in total · 16 days
  15. 1,321 ha Sulima fire, April 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,312 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 1,512 ha Sulima fire, March 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,503 ha in total · 11 days
  17. 1,164 ha Sulima fire, 3 February 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,157 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 1,140 ha Sulima fire, 3 February 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,133 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 1,063 ha Sulima fire, January 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,057 ha in total · 2 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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