Wildfires in Kerewan
Kerewan, Gambia: 12 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 15,581 hectares inside the region. The largest was Illiasa in February 2024, with 1,891 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).
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
- 15,581ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 7.0%
- 2,220 km²
- fires
- 12
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 7
- Largest fire
- 1,891ha
- Illiasa · February 2024
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Mon 2 Low 34° · 46 % · 28 km/h
- Tue 3 Moderate 35° · 34 % · 31 km/h
- Wed 4 Moderate 36° · 38 % · 21 km/h
- Thu 5 Moderate 37° · 31 % · 27 km/h
- Fri 6 High 38° · 24 % · 30 km/h
- Sat 7 High 38° · 23 % · 27 km/h
- Sun 8 High 37° · 20 % · 27 km/h
- Mon 9 High 37° · 21 % · 35 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Illiasa 8,581 ha · 23 %
- Upper Niumi 4,891 ha · 12 %
- Sabach Sanjar 2,109 ha · 6.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 6×Illiasa8,581 ha
- 4×Upper Niumi4,891 ha
- 2×Sabach Sanjar2,109 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,891 haIlliasaFebruary 2024 · 3 days
- 1,492 haSabach SanjarFebruary 2020 · 4 days
- 1,399 haIlliasaApril 2024 · 2 days
- 1,385 haIlliasaMarch 2026 · 3 days
- 1,355 haIlliasaFebruary 2021 · 3 days
- 1,348 haUpper NiumiFebruary 2026 · 2 days
- 1,318 haIlliasaFebruary 2026 · 1 day
- 1,281 haUpper NiumiApril 2026 · 8 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 5,331 | Illiasa 1,385 ha |
| 2024 | 3 | 4,305 | Illiasa 1,891 ha |
| 2023 | 2 | 1,865 | Upper Niumi 1,247 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 1,355 | Illiasa 1,355 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 1,492 | Sabach Sanjar 1,492 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 1,234 | Illiasa 1,234 ha |
All fires in Kerewan · 12
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,281 haUpper NiumiApril 2026 · 8 days
- 1,385 haIlliasaMarch 2026 · 3 days
- 1,348 haUpper NiumiFebruary 2026 · 2 days
- 1,318 haIlliasaFebruary 2026 · 1 day
- 1,399 haIlliasaApril 2024 · 2 days
- 1,015 haUpper NiumiMarch 2024 · 6 days
- 1,891 haIlliasaFebruary 2024 · 3 days
- 1,247 haUpper NiumiApril 2023 · 10 days
- 618 haSabach SanjarFebruary 2023 · 6 days of 1,321 ha in total
- 1,355 haIlliasaFebruary 2021 · 3 days
- 1,492 haSabach SanjarFebruary 2020 · 4 days
- 1,234 haIlliasaMarch 2017 · 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/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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