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Wildfires in Tunkia

Tunkia, Sierra Leone, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 11,194 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% 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. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 60 % · 19 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 73 % · 20 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 70 % · 19 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 65 % · 19 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 32° · 61 % · 24 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 32° · 70 % · 26 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

11,194
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
9
fires
747
km²

How many times has Tunkia burned?

Tunkia has burned 9 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2019, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Tunkia fire, 25 March 2026, with 1,783 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 11,194 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,284 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
9
fires
4
years with fire
11,194
cumulative ha
10,284
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 Tunkia

  1. 1,783 ha Tunkia fire, 25 March 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,771 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 1,448 ha Tunkia fire, 25 March 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,438 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 2,721 ha Tunkia fire, 25 March 2026 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 2,703 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 1,243 ha Tunkia fire, March 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,235 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 397 ha Koya fire, 22 April 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 1,179 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,074 ha Tunkia fire, 31 March 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,067 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,122 ha Tunkia fire, 1 March 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,115 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 483 ha Koya fire, March 2018 0.6% of the municipality · 1,556 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 925 ha Tunkia fire, March 2018 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,057 ha in total · 7 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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