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Wildfires in Eastern

Eastern, Sierra Leone: 308 fires with a page have entered 38 of its 45 chiefdoms since 2016, burning 450,881 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sandor in 23 February 2019, with 8,226 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
450,881ha
Since 2016
Of the region
29%
15,786 km²
fires
308
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
38
of 45
Largest fire
8,226ha
Sandor · 23 February 2019
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 62 % · 17 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 74 % · 19 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 72 % · 19 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 69 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 74 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 69 % · 27 km/h

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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. Sandor 94,080 ha · 63 %
  2. Gorama Mende 49,331 ha · 74 %
  3. Lei 36,392 ha · 54 %
  4. Wandor 31,571 ha · 98 %
  5. Nimiyama 26,308 ha · 73 %
  6. Soa 20,305 ha · 38 %
  7. Penguia 19,463 ha · 92 %
  8. Dodo 18,473 ha · 57 %
  9. Lower Bambara 18,048 ha · 26 %
  10. Simbaru 15,163 ha · 56 %
  11. Gorama Kono 14,308 ha · 45 %
  12. Tunkia 11,194 ha · 15 %

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
202659102,389 Dodo 5,704 ha
20251011,125 Sandor 1,616 ha
20241516,118 Lei 2,066 ha
20232526,487 Wandor 2,024 ha
20223855,498 Simbaru 5,738 ha
202188,185 Lower Bambara 1,598 ha
20202737,782 Gorama Mende 3,603 ha
20193765,246 Sandor 8,226 ha
20182021,959 Penguia 2,548 ha
20173657,847 Penguia 4,267 ha
20163348,244 Sandor 6,377 ha

All fires in Eastern · 308

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/Government of Sierra Leone, 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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