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Wildfires in Tikonko

Tikonko, Sierra Leone, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 15,708 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 31% 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 31 Very low 31° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 71 % · 20 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 68 % · 17 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 74 % · 18 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 73 % · 20 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 71 % · 29 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 67 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 32° · 79 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

15,708
hectares burned
31 %
of its area
12
fires
511
km²

How many times has Tikonko burned?

Tikonko has burned 12 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Tikonko fire, 24 March 2026, with 902 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 15,708 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 13,316 hectares, 26 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
12
fires
7
years with fire
15,708
cumulative ha
13,316
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 Tikonko

  1. 902 ha Tikonko fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,139 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 4,378 ha Tikonko fire, 22 March 2026 where it started 8.6% of the municipality · 7,300 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 1,254 ha Tikonko fire, 14 March 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,246 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 1,075 ha Tikonko fire, April 2023 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,069 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 1,154 ha Tikonko fire, April 2022 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,458 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 1,863 ha Tikonko fire, 29 March 2020 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 2,611 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,199 ha Tikonko fire, 28 March 2020 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,193 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 954 ha Tikonko fire, 28 March 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,035 ha Tikonko fire, 11 April 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,028 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 632 ha Tikonko fire, 9 April 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,158 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 231 ha Jaiama Bongor fire, April 2018 0.4% of the municipality · 1,927 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 1,031 ha Bumpe Ngao fire, 27 March 2016 2.0% of the municipality · 1,773 ha in total · 19 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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