Wildfires in Rivercess
Rivercess, Liberia: 4 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 8 districts since 2016, burning 4,361 hectares inside the region. The largest was Norwein in May 2023, with 1,180 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
- 4,361ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.8%
- 5,568 km²
- fires
- 4
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 4
- of 8
- Largest fire
- 1,180ha
- Norwein · May 2023
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 31° · 64 % · 27 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 30° · 73 % · 25 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 32° · 61 % · 30 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 31° · 71 % · 28 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 32° · 60 % · 26 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 31° · 68 % · 27 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 30° · 73 % · 30 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 30° · 67 % · 35 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
- 1,180 haNorweinMay 2023 · 3 days
- 1,145 haDoedainMarch 2026 · 5 days
- 1,097 haJo RiverApril 2023 · 2 days
- 940 haDistrict #4March 2020 · 2 days of 1,054 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 1,145 | Doedain 1,145 ha |
| 2023 | 2 | 2,276 | Norwein 1,180 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 940 | District #4 940 ha |
All fires in Rivercess · 4
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).