Jore fire, 18 April 2021 Jore
The fire started on 18 April 2021 in Jore, Ethiopia, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,529 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 426th largest in Gambela since 2016 (of 611 with a page). Number 181 in Ethiopia in 2021, of 255.
- Burnt area
- 2,529ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 3days
- 18 Apr 2021 – 20 Apr 2021
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 18 Apr
- 2021
- Heat detections
- 113
- in a single hotspot: 35 MW
- Energy released
- 897MW
- 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
92% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 578 ha in 2016, 2,193 ha in 2017, 566 ha in 2018, 396 ha in 2019, 568 ha in 2020. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,315 ha that had burned before.
- 1,113 ha Jore fire, February 2017 2,634 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 442 ha Jore fire, December 2016 64,789 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 408 ha Jore fire, January 2017 9,110 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 396 ha Jore fire, February 2019 3,723 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 319 ha Jore fire, February 2016 14,297 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 256 ha Jore fire, March 2016 3,627 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Jore where it started2,545 ha reached on 13 Apr0.8 %
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.
Detections table · 113Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 47,727 haJore2 February 2021 · 36 days · 8 km away
- 76,225 haJoreFebruary 2026 · 35 days · 13 km away
- 201,499 haJoreJanuary 2022 · 78 days · 16 km away
- 64,789 haJore21 December 2016 · 42 days · 17 km away
- 33,633 haJore6 March 2018 · 18 days · 34 km away
- 30,249 haJore27 December 2016 · 23 days · 34 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Jore fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 18 April 2021 and 20 April 2021: 3 days 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 2,529 hectares (25.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Jore (2,545 ha, 0.8 %).
- 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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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.