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Wildfires in Kuntaur

Kuntaur, Gambia: 41 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 6 districts since 2016, burning 61,807 hectares inside the region. The largest was Upper Saloum in January 2025, with 3,277 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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
61,807ha
Since 2016
Of the region
41%
1,502 km²
fires
41
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 6
Largest fire
3,277ha
Upper Saloum · January 2025
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 30 Moderate 35° · 37 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 53 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 33° · 52 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 33° · 54 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Low 34° · 42 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Moderate 34° · 42 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Moderate 36° · 37 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 6 High 38° · 26 % · 39 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. Niani 14,848 ha · 34 %
  2. Upper Fuladu West 12,908 ha · 27 %
  3. Sami 12,565 ha · 25 %
  4. Nianija 8,539 ha · 63 %
  5. Lower Saloum 6,520 ha · 35 %
  6. Upper Saloum 6,428 ha · 26 %

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
202657,590 Upper Fuladu West 2,760 ha
2025811,631 Upper Saloum 3,277 ha
202457,452 Sami 1,729 ha
202369,063 Upper Saloum 2,272 ha
202122,154 Niani 1,097 ha
202046,457 Nianija 2,028 ha
201912,911 Niani 2,911 ha
201812,964 Nianija 2,964 ha
2017710,236 Upper Saloum 2,453 ha
201621,348 Sami 1,120 ha

All fires in Kuntaur · 41

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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