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Wildfires in Valunia

Valunia, Sierra Leone, has had 47 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 62,503 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 75% 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° · 63 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 62 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 76 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 69 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 70 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 66 % · 33 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 78 % · 34 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

62,503
hectares burned
75 %
of its area
47
fires
829
km²

How many times has Valunia burned?

Valunia has burned 47 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Valunia fire, 30 March 2026, with 1,211 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 7× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3.   18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 9× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 9× 26
47
fires
10
years with fire
62,503
cumulative ha
30 Mar 2026
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 Valunia

  1. 1,211 ha Valunia fire, 30 March 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,225 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 253 ha Gorama Mende fire, 29 March 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 1,168 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 1,736 ha Valunia fire, 29 March 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 3,014 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 4,961 ha Niawa Lenga fire, March 2026 6.0% of the municipality · 20,541 ha in total · 25 days
  5. 1,280 ha Valunia fire, 16 March 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,271 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 392 ha Kamajei fire, 15 March 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 6,967 ha in total · 23 days
  7. 861 ha Valunia fire, 14 March 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,394 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 1,572 ha Valunia fire, 14 March 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,562 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 2,987 ha Valunia fire, 14 March 2026 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 5,572 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 1,247 ha Valunia fire, April 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,418 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 1,040 ha Valunia fire, March 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,033 ha in total · 15 days
  12. 10 ha Gbo fire, April 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,344 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 904 ha Valunia fire, 6 April 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,322 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 1,017 ha Valunia fire, 4 April 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,011 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 2,299 ha Valunia fire, 2 April 2023 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 3,439 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 1,329 ha Valunia fire, 17 March 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,320 ha in total · 12 days
  17. 2,638 ha Valunia fire, 12 March 2023 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 2,670 ha in total · 17 days
  18. 616 ha Valunia fire, 15 April 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,220 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 1,219 ha Valunia fire, 14 April 2022 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,259 ha in total · 10 days
  20. 799 ha Valunia fire, 9 April 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,142 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 1,146 ha Valunia fire, 6 April 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,139 ha in total · 14 days
  22. 55 ha Kamajei fire, April 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 1,019 ha in total · 11 days
  23. 1,190 ha Valunia fire, 5 April 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,213 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 2,375 ha Valunia fire, 4 April 2022 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 2,541 ha in total · 13 days
  25. 1,726 ha Kamajei fire, March 2022 2.1% of the municipality · 3,846 ha in total · 7 days
  26. 1,352 ha Valunia fire, March 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,343 ha in total · 10 days
  27. 1,492 ha Valunia fire, 18 March 2021 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,482 ha in total · 10 days
  28. 468 ha Valunia fire, 13 March 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,510 ha in total · 16 days
  29. 554 ha Niawa Lenga fire, March 2020 0.7% of the municipality · 1,220 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 919 ha Valunia fire, March 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,081 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 319 ha Gorama Mende fire, 16 March 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 1,164 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 1,279 ha Valunia fire, April 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,399 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 1,277 ha Valunia fire, 12 March 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,370 ha in total · 7 days
  34. 1,735 ha Valunia fire, 2 March 2019 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,724 ha in total · 20 days
  35. 1,705 ha Valunia fire, 1 March 2019 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,694 ha in total · 20 days
  36. 4,919 ha Valunia fire, 1 March 2019 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 7,934 ha in total · 21 days
  37. 1,159 ha Valunia fire, April 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,300 ha in total · 9 days
  38. 515 ha Niawa Lenga fire, March 2017 0.6% of the municipality · 1,553 ha in total · 10 days
  39. 1,098 ha Valunia fire, 11 March 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,091 ha in total · 4 days
  40. 1,605 ha Valunia fire, 11 March 2017 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,595 ha in total · 2 days
  41. 986 ha Valunia fire, 27 March 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,182 ha in total · 13 days
  42. 145 ha Kamajei fire, 27 March 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 3,841 ha in total · 3 days
  43. 1,173 ha Valunia fire, 27 March 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,883 ha in total · 10 days
  44. 1,404 ha Valunia fire, 27 March 2016 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,395 ha in total · 3 days
  45. 3 ha Gorama Mende fire, 27 March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,783 ha in total · 3 days
  46. 1,711 ha Valunia fire, 26 March 2016 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 7,099 ha in total · 16 days
  47. 1,822 ha Valunia fire, 12 March 2016 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,858 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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