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Wildfires in TMS

TMS, Sierra Leone, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 15,896 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 53% 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. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 79 % · 26 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 65 % · 26 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 75 % · 19 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 76 % · 18 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 72 % · 26 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 72 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 65 % · 27 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 75 % · 35 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

15,896
hectares burned
53 %
of its area
17
fires
301
km²

How many times has TMS burned?

TMS has burned 17 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Maforki fire, 22 April 2026, with 9 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 15,896 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,752 hectares, 42 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
17
fires
8
years with fire
15,896
cumulative ha
12,752
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 TMS

  1. 9 ha Maforki fire, 22 April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,463 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 1,588 ha TMS fire, 15 April 2026 where it started 5.3% of the municipality · 2,897 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 1,626 ha TMS fire, 14 April 2026 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 3,166 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 2,933 ha TMS fire, 6 April 2026 where it started 9.7% of the municipality · 4,073 ha in total · 29 days
  5. 1,182 ha TMS fire, April 2024 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 1,175 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 528 ha Maforki fire, April 2024 1.8% of the municipality · 1,493 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1 ha Maforki fire, 24 April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,608 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 241 ha Maforki fire, April 2022 0.8% of the municipality · 1,446 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 1,018 ha TMS fire, April 2020 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,011 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 676 ha Libeisaygahun fire, April 2020 2.2% of the municipality · 1,362 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 821 ha Maforki fire, April 2019 2.7% of the municipality · 3,767 ha in total · 16 days
  12. 331 ha Dibia fire, 14 April 2018 1.1% of the municipality · 1,092 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 701 ha TMS fire, April 2018 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,258 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 1,213 ha TMS fire, 5 April 2017 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 1,248 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 1,295 ha TMS fire, 5 April 2017 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 1,703 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 334 ha Maforki fire, 1 April 2017 1.1% of the municipality · 2,413 ha in total · 11 days
  17. 1,399 ha Buya Romende fire, 1 April 2017 4.6% of the municipality · 2,167 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).

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