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Wildfires in Southern

Southern, Sierra Leone: 415 fires with a page have entered 50 of its 55 chiefdoms since 2016, burning 683,054 hectares inside the region. The largest was Niawa Lenga in March 2026, with 20,673 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.

These figures leave out 2 pages with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
683,054ha
Since 2016
Of the region
34%
20,317 km²
fires
415
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
50
of 55
Largest fire
20,673ha
Niawa Lenga · March 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 14 Very low 32° · 66 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 31° · 69 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 30° · 73 % · 19 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 31° · 65 % · 17 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 30° · 71 % · 24 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 32° · 64 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 32° · 61 % · 20 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 32° · 68 % · 19 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. Valunia 62,111 ha · 75 %
  2. Fakunya 48,653 ha · 95 %
  3. Bagruwa 48,647 ha · 58 %
  4. Koya 47,834 ha · 32 %
  5. Bumpe Ngao 37,012 ha · 39 %
  6. Kwamebai Krim 31,569 ha · 1.1×
  7. Niawa Lenga 26,931 ha · 1.1×
  8. Ribbi 26,916 ha · 42 %
  9. Kagboro 23,697 ha · 34 %
  10. Kamajei 21,199 ha · 47 %
  11. Kori 20,588 ha · 31 %
  12. Lower Banta 19,384 ha · 39 %

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
202680172,782 Niawa Lenga 20,673 ha
20254364,400 Bagruwa 3,622 ha
20244566,060 Kwamebai Krim 5,895 ha
20233555,092 Koya 5,165 ha
20223651,351 Kamajei 3,411 ha
202168,030 Valunia 1,520 ha
20203545,160 Ribbi 2,977 ha
20194060,910 Valunia 7,089 ha
20181926,440 Koya 3,695 ha
20172947,740 Bagruwa 6,970 ha
20164785,090 Valunia 7,144 ha

All fires in Southern · 417

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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