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Wildfires in Tane

Tane, Sierra Leone, has had 28 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 30,363 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 68% 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. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 71 % · 28 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 74 % · 25 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 75 % · 21 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 64 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 60 % · 29 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 59 % · 28 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 71 % · 24 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 75 % · 28 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

30,363
hectares burned
68 %
of its area
28
fires
449
km²

How many times has Tane burned?

Tane has burned 28 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Tane fire, April 2024, with 462 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 30,363 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 22,182 hectares, 49 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 6× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
28
fires
8
years with fire
30,363
cumulative ha
22,182
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 Tane

  1. 462 ha Tane fire, April 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,042 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,080 ha Tane fire, April 2023 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,462 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 747 ha Gbonkolenken fire, April 2023 1.7% of the municipality · 2,660 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 1,225 ha Tane fire, 31 March 2023 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 1,233 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 1,425 ha Tane fire, 30 March 2023 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,427 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 1,339 ha Tane fire, 24 March 2023 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,477 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 133 ha Tane fire, 19 March 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,032 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 229 ha Tane fire, April 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,017 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,024 ha Tane fire, 21 March 2022 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,052 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 2,389 ha Kunike Barina fire, 14 March 2022 5.3% of the municipality · 5,018 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 5,208 ha Tane fire, 6 March 2022 where it started 12% of the municipality · 5,210 ha in total · 24 days
  12. 65 ha Gbonkolenken fire, March 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,224 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 18 ha Kunike Barina fire, April 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,273 ha in total · 13 days
  14. 912 ha Tane fire, April 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,336 ha in total · 13 days
  15. 312 ha Gbonkolenken fire, 9 March 2019 0.7% of the municipality · 1,192 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 147 ha Gbonkolenken fire, 22 March 2018 0.3% of the municipality · 1,665 ha in total · 16 days
  17. 54 ha Kunike fire, 22 March 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 1,146 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 1,257 ha Tane fire, March 2018 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,339 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 303 ha Kunike fire, 15 April 2017 0.7% of the municipality · 1,245 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 1,757 ha Tane fire, 14 April 2017 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 1,745 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 1,275 ha Tane fire, 3 April 2017 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,333 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 0 ha Gbonkolenken fire, 2 April 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,917 ha in total · 8 days
  23. 1,594 ha Tane fire, March 2017 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 1,584 ha in total · 15 days
  24. 981 ha Tane fire, April 2016 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,227 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 1,193 ha Gbonkolenken fire, March 2016 2.7% of the municipality · 2,514 ha in total · 13 days
  26. 2,687 ha Tane fire, 26 March 2016 where it started 6.0% of the municipality · 2,670 ha in total · 15 days
  27. 1,266 ha Tane fire, 26 March 2016 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,258 ha in total · 18 days
  28. 1,281 ha Tane fire, 25 March 2016 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,272 ha in total · 11 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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