Burned area
satellite only2,340ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 27 Oct 2026 – 5 Nov 2026
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ET · Ethiopia · –
Guba fire, 27 October 2026 Guba
Burning · last detection 5 Nov 2026, 23:50 UTC
The fire started on 27 October 2026 in Guba, Ethiopia, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,340 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
Number 141 in Ethiopia in 2026, of 198.
GWIS near-real-time perimeter, from the layer that changed in August 2025: this fire is not compared with fires from earlier years, because since then the GWIS layer gives more and larger perimeters.
The power measured by the satellite is low (18.6 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only10days
From 27 Oct 2026 to today: still being detected.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 5 Nov 2026, 23:50 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only27 Oct 2026
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 27 Oct 2026
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only59
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 19 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP + NOAA-20)
- Date
- 27 Oct 2026 – 5 Nov 2026
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only122MW
Total radiative power on 5 November 2026; hotspots that day: 25.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 5 Nov 2026
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model54.1FWI · extreme
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 12.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 27 Oct 2026, local noon
- Model
- ECMWF IFS 0,25° · Open-Meteo.com · provisional
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Weather during the fire
model39.3°C · 12% RH
High of 39.3 °C and minimum humidity of 12% on 3 November 2026; gusts of 33 km/h on 3 November 2026.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 27 Oct 2026 – 5 Nov 2026
- Model
- ECMWF IFS 0,25° · Open-Meteo.com · provisional
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CSV for this fire guba-2026-11-2.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | 1 | 14 | 36.6 | 25.7 | 24 | 13.3 | 29.9 | 0.3 | 54.1 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-10-28 | 0 | 0 | 36.7 | 24 | 24 | 15.6 | 29.2 | 0.9 | 29.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-10-29 | 0 | 0 | 39.2 | 25.5 | 20 | 9.2 | 24.8 | 0 | 42.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2026-10-30 | 3 | 13 | 38.3 | 26 | 21 | 13.3 | 31.3 | 0 | 48.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2026-10-31 | 0 | 0 | 37.6 | 25.5 | 20 | 15.3 | 24.5 | 0 | 41.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2026-11-01 | 0 | 0 | 37.3 | 24.9 | 22 | 9.5 | 23.8 | 0 | 42.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2026-11-02 | 9 | 20 | 38.6 | 24.4 | 15 | 11 | 29.5 | 0 | 45.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2026-11-03 | 6 | 47 | 39.3 | 24.4 | 12 | 14.5 | 33.1 | 0 | 64 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-11-04 | 15 | 100 | 38.9 | 23.8 | 14 | 9.5 | 24.1 | 0 | 53.6 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-11-05 | 25 | 122 | 38.4 | 23.6 | 13 | 10.2 | 23.4 | 0 | 49.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
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Is it still active?
Satellites detected fire on 5 Nov 2026, 23:50 UTC. Everything suggests it is still burning. Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
- Burnt area
- 2,340ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 10days
- 27 Oct 2026 – 5 Nov 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 27 Oct
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 59
- in a single hotspot: 19 MW
- Danger at start
- 54
- Extreme · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 53MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
27 Oct5 Nov
5 Nov 2026
How it evolved, day by day
27 Oct
1 Nov
3 Nov
5 Nov
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
39°high
33km/h · peak gust
12%lowest humidity
It had gone 12 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
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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Guba where it started2,352 ha reached on 27 Oct0.3 %
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.
The weather day by day
ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · forecast models, provisional until the ERA5 reanalysis arrives
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Oct | 36.6 °C | 24 % | 30 km/h | 0.3 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 28 Oct | 36.7 °C | 24 % | 29 km/h | 0.9 mm | High 30 |
| 29 Oct | 39.2 °C | 20 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 30 Oct | 38.3 °C | 21 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 31 Oct | 37.6 °C | 20 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 1 Nov | 37.3 °C | 22 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 2 Nov | 38.6 °C | 15 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 3 Nov | 39.3 °C | 12 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 64 |
| 4 Nov | 38.9 °C | 14 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 5 Nov | 38.4 °C | 13 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
Before and after, from space
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Before · 20 Oct 2026
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Detections table · 59Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Guba fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 27 October 2026 to 5 November 2026 (10 days). The perimeter dates it from 2 November 2026 to 5 November 2026.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 2,340 hectares (23.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Guba (2,352 ha, 0.3 %).
- Is the Guba fire still active?
- Yes: satellites detected fire on 5 Nov 2026, 23:50 UTC. Check the emergency service for the official status.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 39.3 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 33 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 64, class Extreme.
- 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.
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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 2 November 2026 to 5 November 2026. 59 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: ECMWF IFS model, provisional until the ERA5 reanalysis arrives.
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.