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Wildfires in Mansakonko

Mansakonko, Gambia: 74 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 6 districts since 2016, burning 159,116 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kiang West in 10 February 2022, with 10,845 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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
159,116ha
Since 2016
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
1.0×
1,549 km²
fires
74
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 6
Largest fire
10,845ha
Kiang West · 10 February 2022
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° · 30 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 36° · 53 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 36° · 44 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 36° · 39 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 37° · 31 % · 21 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 36° · 35 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 35° · 47 % · 24 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. Kiang West 117,065 ha · 1.7×
  2. Kiang Central 17,035 ha · 1.0×
  3. Jarra East 8,408 ha · 38 %
  4. Jarra central 8,249 ha · 53 %
  5. Kiang East 6,630 ha · 51 %
  6. Jarra West 1,729 ha · 9.7 %

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
20261336,832 Kiang West 7,677 ha
2025611,149 Kiang West 3,190 ha
202449,223 Kiang West 4,632 ha
2023511,107 Kiang West 4,327 ha
2022517,230 Kiang West 10,845 ha
2021816,237 Kiang West 5,202 ha
20201018,824 Kiang West 2,872 ha
2019712,529 Kiang West 3,166 ha
201879,993 Kiang West 1,800 ha
201748,415 Kiang West 2,967 ha
201657,577 Kiang West 2,734 ha

All fires in Mansakonko · 74

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).