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Wildfires in Lofa

Lofa, Liberia: 253 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 499,692 hectares inside the region. The largest was Voinjama in 1 April 2026, with 21,186 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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
499,692ha
Since 2016
Of the region
50%
9,939 km²
fires
253
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 7
Largest fire
21,186ha
Voinjama · 1 April 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 50 % · 19 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 55 % · 21 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 61 % · 19 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 60 % · 28 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 52 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 51 % · 34 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 50 % · 25 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 74 % · 19 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. Voinjama 177,207 ha · 92 %
  2. Zorzor 126,836 ha · 40 %
  3. Kolahun 125,366 ha · 56 %
  4. Quardu Boundi 47,806 ha · 1.4×
  5. Foya 13,810 ha · 22 %
  6. Salayea 6,213 ha · 4.9 %
  7. Vahun 2,453 ha · 6.3 %

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
202650110,555 Voinjama 21,186 ha
20252034,859 Zorzor 3,802 ha
20242236,365 Voinjama 3,463 ha
20231725,798 Quardu Boundi 3,826 ha
20222449,968 Voinjama 8,754 ha
2021711,534 Quardu Boundi 2,285 ha
20202246,789 Quardu Boundi 6,093 ha
20193673,517 Voinjama 7,781 ha
20181634,562 Kolahun 6,431 ha
20172656,476 Quardu Boundi 11,606 ha
20161319,270 Zorzor 2,656 ha

All fires in Lofa · 253

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/UNMIL, OCHA ROWCA (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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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