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Wildfires in Wonde

Wonde, Sierra Leone, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 2,654 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.9% 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. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 74 % · 23 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 78 % · 23 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 69 % · 18 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 64 % · 23 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 66 % · 18 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 32° · 66 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 31° · 76 % · 26 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 29° · 78 % · 24 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

2,654
hectares burned
9.9 %
of its area
6
fires
269
km²

How many times has Wonde burned?

Wonde has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2019, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Jaiama Bongor fire, 18 March 2026, with 187 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
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  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
6
fires
4
years with fire
2,654
cumulative ha
18 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 Wonde

  1. 187 ha Jaiama Bongor fire, 18 March 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 1,297 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,415 ha Wonde fire, March 2024 where it started 5.3% of the municipality · 1,437 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 55 ha Sowa fire, 24 March 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 1,025 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 68 ha Sowa fire, 7 March 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 2,810 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 12 ha Sowa fire, 25 March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,097 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 917 ha Wonde fire, April 2016 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,161 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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