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Wildfires in Nimba

Nimba, Liberia: 61 fires with a page have entered 17 of its 17 districts since 2016, burning 97,925 hectares inside the region. The largest was Yarpea Mahn in 8 May 2026, with 5,526 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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
97,925ha
Since 2016
Of the region
8.5%
11,503 km²
fires
61
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
17
of 17
Largest fire
5,526ha
Yarpea Mahn · 8 May 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 61 % · 17 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 72 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 66 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 70 % · 21 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 67 % · 25 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 71 % · 21 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 75 % · 32 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 72 % · 30 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. Yarmein 21,092 ha · 38 %
  2. Buu-Yao 14,581 ha · 17 %
  3. Gbehlay-Geh 14,266 ha · 25 %
  4. Doe 8,790 ha · 6.8 %
  5. Yarpea Mahn 8,425 ha · 22 %
  6. Boe & Quilla 6,786 ha · 8.1 %
  7. Sanniquellie Mahn 6,205 ha · 13 %
  8. Kparblee 5,805 ha · 20 %
  9. Zoe-Gbao 2,852 ha · 7.5 %
  10. Yarwein Mehnsonnoh 2,359 ha · 2.3 %
  11. Wee-Gbehyi-Mahn 1,723 ha · 4.0 %
  12. Leewehpea-Mahn 1,368 ha · 3.8 %

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
20261324,114 Yarpea Mahn 5,526 ha
202558,399 Yarmein 2,978 ha
202445,974 Yarmein 1,907 ha
202332,217 Yarwein Mehnsonnoh 1,100 ha
2022715,450 Doe 5,169 ha
202079,437 Gbehlay-Geh 2,594 ha
20191114,903 Doe 2,214 ha
201823,926 Yarmein 2,981 ha
201735,100 Sanniquellie Mahn 2,543 ha
201668,404 Buu-Yao 2,255 ha

All fires in Nimba · 61

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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