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Wildfires in Yoni

Yoni, Sierra Leone, has had 47 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 51,192 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 42% 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 33° · 58 % · 25 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 76 % · 21 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 73 % · 30 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 68 % · 19 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 70 % · 22 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 68 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 73 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 71 % · 31 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

51,192
hectares burned
42 %
of its area
47
fires
1,230
km²

How many times has Yoni burned?

Yoni has burned 47 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Yoni fire, 19 April 2026, with 1,214 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 51,192 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 38,026 hectares, 31 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 6× 17
  3. 4× 18
  4.   19
  5. 7× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 6× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 11× 26
47
fires
9
years with fire
51,192
cumulative ha
38,026
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 Yoni

  1. 1,214 ha Yoni fire, 19 April 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,390 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 1,020 ha Yoni fire, 18 April 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,013 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,283 ha Yoni fire, 17 April 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,275 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 990 ha Yoni fire, 17 April 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,426 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 28 ha Ribbi fire, 17 April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,173 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 1,152 ha Yoni fire, 14 April 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,413 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 4,109 ha Yoni fire, 14 April 2026 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 4,535 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 917 ha Masimera fire, 7 April 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 4,208 ha in total · 26 days
  9. 2,196 ha Yoni fire, March 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,398 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 13 ha Fakunya fire, 28 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,368 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 67 ha Kori fire, 18 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,080 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 1,081 ha Yoni fire, 15 March 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,174 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,329 ha Yoni fire, 15 March 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,320 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 52 ha Fakunya fire, 10 March 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,908 ha in total · 13 days
  15. 44 ha Fakunya fire, 25 April 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,690 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 353 ha Koya fire, 25 April 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 1,086 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 1,051 ha Yoni fire, April 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 1,046 ha Yoni fire, March 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,045 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 1 ha Ribbi fire, March 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,308 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 1,114 ha Masimera fire, April 2023 0.9% of the municipality · 1,122 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 1,467 ha Yoni fire, 6 April 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,458 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 1,881 ha Yoni fire, 6 April 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,868 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 1,347 ha Yoni fire, 1 April 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,338 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 1,198 ha Yoni fire, March 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,190 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 302 ha Kori fire, March 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 2,423 ha in total · 1 day
  26. 61 ha Gbonkolenken fire, 12 March 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,240 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 731 ha Yoni fire, 19 April 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,032 ha in total · 1 day
  28. 736 ha Yoni fire, 3 April 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,169 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 1,119 ha Yoni fire, 3 April 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,403 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 36 ha Masimera fire, 3 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,384 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 1,273 ha Yoni fire, 2 April 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,264 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 859 ha Fakunya fire, 1 April 2020 0.7% of the municipality · 1,899 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 626 ha Yoni fire, March 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,023 ha in total · 2 days
  34. 1,844 ha Yoni fire, 3 April 2018 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,832 ha in total · 4 days
  35. 4,386 ha Yoni fire, 3 April 2018 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 4,358 ha in total · 5 days
  36. 1,297 ha Yoni fire, 3 April 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,606 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 1,641 ha Yoni fire, March 2018 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,683 ha in total · 3 days
  38. 972 ha Yoni fire, 10 April 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,297 ha in total · 4 days
  39. 1,385 ha Yoni fire, 5 April 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,379 ha in total · 6 days
  40. 911 ha Masimera fire, 5 April 2017 0.7% of the municipality · 4,665 ha in total · 13 days
  41. 2 ha Ribbi fire, April 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,059 ha in total · 7 days
  42. 1,822 ha Yoni fire, 1 April 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,617 ha in total · 9 days
  43. 1,449 ha Yoni fire, March 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,439 ha in total · 3 days
  44. 147 ha Fakunya fire, 1 April 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,784 ha in total · 7 days
  45. 2,043 ha Yoni fire, April 2016 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,030 ha in total · 5 days
  46. 1,482 ha Yoni fire, 30 March 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,473 ha in total · 10 days
  47. 1,120 ha Yoni fire, 12 March 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,113 ha in total · 2 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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