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Wildfires in Yawei

Yawei, Sierra Leone, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 4,326 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% 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 25 Very low 32° · 61 % · 19 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 74 % · 32 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 72 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 65 % · 28 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 69 % · 21 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 71 % · 30 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 68 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 71 % · 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

4,326
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
5
fires
196
km²

How many times has Yawei burned?

Yawei has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2020, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Yawei fire, April 2025, with 1,111 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
4,326
cumulative ha
23 Apr 2025
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 Yawei

  1. 1,111 ha Yawei fire, April 2025 where it started 5.7% of the municipality · 1,104 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 25 ha Malegohun fire, 23 April 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,062 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 292 ha Penguia fire, 8 April 2020 1.5% of the municipality · 1,359 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,504 ha Yawei fire, 6 April 2017 where it started 7.7% of the municipality · 1,495 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,393 ha Yawei fire, 2 April 2017 where it started 7.1% of the municipality · 1,655 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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