Dodoth fire, 27 November 2025 Dodoth
The fire started on 27 November 2025 in Dodoth, Uganda, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,627 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 158th largest in Northern Region since 2016 (of 1377 with a page). Number 36 in Uganda in 2025, of 226.
- Burnt area
- 2,627ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 1day
- 27 Nov 2025 – 27 Nov 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- counties
- Started on
- 27 Nov
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 37
- in a single hotspot: 122 MW
- Energy released
- 654MW
- sum of detected power
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
91% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 120 ha in 2016, 62 ha in 2017, 427 ha in 2018, 546 ha in 2021, 862 ha in 2022, 1,046 ha in 2023, 558 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,390 ha that had burned before.
- 1,046 ha Dodoth fire, December 2023 1,276 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 862 ha Dodoth fire, October 2022 1,362 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 558 ha Dodoth fire, January 2024 1,136 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 546 ha Dodoth fire, March 2021 5,317 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 186 ha Dodoth fire, October 2018 1,685 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 120 ha Dodoth fire, February 2016 1,558 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 103 ha Dodoth fire, October 2018 1,226 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 98 ha Dodoth fire, October 2018 1,093 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Dodoth where it started2,645 ha reached on 27 Nov0.4 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre 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 30 November 2025 the air beside the fire reached 18 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO 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 · 37Every 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 Dodoth fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 27 November 2025 and 27 November 2025: 1 day between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 2,627 hectares (26.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Dodoth (2,645 ha, 0.4 %).
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Uganda (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.
Emergency number: 999 · 112
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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 ADM2 (Public Domain). 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.