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Wildfires in Upper Banta

Upper Banta, Sierra Leone, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 1,534 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.9% 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 24 Very low 32° · 69 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 65 % · 26 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 76 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 75 % · 17 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 77 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 74 % · 24 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 76 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 73 % · 27 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

1,534
hectares burned
7.9 %
of its area
3
fires
195
km²

How many times has Upper Banta burned?

Upper Banta has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2023. The most recent: Lower Banta fire, March 2023, with 498 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
1,534
cumulative ha
25 Mar 2023
most recent

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 Upper Banta

  1. 498 ha Lower Banta fire, March 2023 2.6% of the municipality · 1,102 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 0 ha Bumpe Ngao fire, 24 March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,113 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 1,036 ha Upper Banta fire, March 2020 where it started 5.3% of the municipality · 1,029 ha in total · 6 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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