Jore fire, February 2022 Jore
The fire started on 8 February 2022 in Jore, Ethiopia, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,387 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 455th largest in Gambela since 2016 (of 611 with a page). Number 89 in Ethiopia in 2022, of 135.
- Burnt area
- 2,387ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 6days
- 8 Feb 2022 – 13 Feb 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 8 Feb
- 2022
- Heat detections
- 61
- in a single hotspot: 91 MW
- Energy released
- 500MW
- 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
85% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,571 ha in 2016, 50 ha in 2018, 1,386 ha in 2019, 230 ha in 2020, 77 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,036 ha that had burned before.
- 1,134 ha Jore fire, December 2016 2,293 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 987 ha Jore fire, December 2016 30,249 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 247 ha Jore fire, January 2019 3,919 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 230 ha Jore fire, April 2020 2,300 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 77 ha Jore fire, February 2021 3,481 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 started2,401 ha reached on 8 Feb0.7 %
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 · 61Every 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
- 30,249 haJore27 December 2016 · 23 days · 6 km away
- 64,789 haJore21 December 2016 · 42 days · 15 km away
- 76,225 haJoreFebruary 2026 · 35 days · 21 km away
- 201,499 haJoreJanuary 2022 · 78 days · 22 km away
- 23,559 haJore4 January 2019 · 21 days · 23 km away
- 47,727 haJore2 February 2021 · 36 days · 31 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Jore fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 8 February 2022 and 13 February 2022: 6 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 2,387 hectares (23.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Jore (2,401 ha, 0.7 %).
- 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.