Dima fire, 31 January 2025 Dima, Gog
The fire started on 31 January 2025 in Dima, Ethiopia, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,232 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 504th largest in Gambela since 2016 (of 611 with a page). Number 99 in Ethiopia in 2025, of 126.
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Suggestions: Dima · 2018Dima · 2016Dima · 2021Dima · 2018
- Burnt area
- 2,232ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 4days
- 31 Jan 2025 – 3 Feb 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- districts
- Started on
- 31 Jan
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 64
- in a single hotspot: 145 MW
- Average daily power
- 615MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
This area had burned before
100% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,449 ha in 2016, 381 ha in 2017, 1,338 ha in 2018, 915 ha in 2019, 309 ha in 2020, 1,227 ha in 2021, 266 ha in 2022, 63 ha in 2023, 405 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,237 ha that had burned before.
- 1,338 ha Dima fire, January 2018 17,819 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,328 ha Dima fire, January 2016 4,062 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,227 ha Dima fire, January 2021 7,225 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 915 ha Dima fire, December 2018 26,386 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 408 ha Dima fire, December 2016 7,056 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 381 ha Gog fire, December 2017 3,236 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 309 ha Gog fire, February 2020 7,994 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Dima where it started1,328 ha reached on 31 Jan0.2 %
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920 ha reached on 1 Feb0.3 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 2 February 2025 the air beside the fire reached 94 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 71: 4.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Detections table · 64Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Dima fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 31 January 2025 to 3 February 2025 (4 days). The perimeter dates it from 1 February 2025 to 1 February 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 2,232 hectares (22.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Dima (1,328 ha, 0.2 %); Gog (920 ha, 0.3 %).
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Ethiopia (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
Where to verify it
A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 1 February 2025 to 1 February 2025. 64 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
Where this data comes from
The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM3 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.