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Wildfires in Basse

Basse, Gambia: 56 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 87,659 hectares inside the region. The largest was Wuli West in January 2026, with 4,598 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned
87,659ha
Since 2016
Of the region
43%
2,039 km²
fires
56
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 7
Largest fire
4,598ha
Wuli West · January 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Moderate 38° · 32 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 35° · 59 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 36° · 48 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 38° · 30 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 37° · 28 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 35° · 39 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 35° · 39 % · 21 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 33° · 52 % · 30 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Wuli West 21,122 ha · 76 %
  2. Wuli East 15,460 ha · 47 %
  3. Sandu 15,099 ha · 45 %
  4. Tumana 12,587 ha · 41 %
  5. Jimara 10,889 ha · 33 %
  6. Kantora 7,846 ha · 26 %
  7. Basse 4,654 ha · 28 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20261425,513 Wuli West 4,598 ha
202533,874 Jimara 1,453 ha
2024711,905 Tumana 3,920 ha
202379,327 Tumana 1,893 ha
202258,670 Tumana 3,361 ha
202145,279 Wuli West 1,892 ha
202034,531 Wuli West 2,317 ha
201911,299 Wuli East 1,299 ha
201811,074 Kantora 1,074 ha
201745,642 Sandu 1,845 ha
2016710,544 Wuli East 2,474 ha

All fires in Basse · 56

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Knippenberg, Erwin, & Moritz, Meyer. “The Hidden Potential of Mobile Phone Data Insights on COVID-19 in the Gambia.” Data Blog, The World Bank Data Catalog (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).