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Wildfires in Brikama

Brikama, Gambia: 44 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 9 districts since 2016, burning 60,109 hectares inside the region. The largest was Foni Bondali in March 2018, with 3,655 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 24).

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
60,109ha
Since 2016
Of the region
34%
1,776 km²
fires
44
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 9
Largest fire
3,655ha
Foni Bondali · March 2018
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 13 High 37° · 26 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sat 14 High 36° · 33 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 15 High 36° · 29 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 16 High 37° · 27 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Moderate 36° · 37 % · 21 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Moderate 34° · 39 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 19 High 35° · 30 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 20 High 36° · 29 % · 27 km/h

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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. Foni Bondali 22,626 ha · 1.4×
  2. Foni Kansala 18,491 ha · 94 %
  3. Foni Bintang Karanai 6,686 ha · 24 %
  4. Kombo East 6,160 ha · 21 %
  5. Foni Jarrol 6,130 ha · 76 %
  6. Foni Brefet 15 ha · 0.1 %

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
2026911,627 Foni Kansala 2,886 ha
202521,598 Foni Bondali 1,598 ha
202422,089 Foni Bondali 1,343 ha
202345,974 Foni Kansala 2,357 ha
202244,492 Foni Bondali 1,929 ha
202154,559 Foni Bondali 1,740 ha
202023,909 Foni Kansala 1,982 ha
201979,030 Kombo East 1,490 ha
201849,811 Foni Bondali 3,655 ha
201757,020 Foni Kansala 2,580 ha

All fires in Brikama · 44

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).

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