Jore fire, 4 March 2023 Jore
The fire started on 4 March 2023 in Jore, Ethiopia, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,193 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 521th largest in Gambela since 2016 (of 611 with a page). Number 85 in Ethiopia in 2023, of 101.
- Burnt area
- 2,193ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 2days
- 4 Mar 2023 – 5 Mar 2023
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 4 Mar
- 2023
- Heat detections
- 65
- in a single hotspot: 300 MW
- Energy released
- 2.0GW
- 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
98% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,321 ha in 2016, 1,340 ha in 2017, 564 ha in 2018, 1,080 ha in 2019, 328 ha in 2020, 760 ha in 2021, 432 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,142 ha that had burned before.
- 850 ha Pochalla fire, January 2017 10,025 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 711 ha Jore fire, January 2016 7,547 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 652 ha Jore fire, January 2019 23,559 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 610 ha Jore fire, January 2016 5,490 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 490 ha Jore fire, December 2016 64,789 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 475 ha Jore fire, February 2021 8,132 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 432 ha Jore fire, January 2022 201,499 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 429 ha Jore fire, February 2019 16,368 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 started2,206 ha reached on 3 Mar0.6 %
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 · 65Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 23,559 haJore4 January 2019 · 21 days · 12 km away
- 201,499 haJoreJanuary 2022 · 78 days · 14 km away
- 76,225 haJoreFebruary 2026 · 35 days · 19 km away
- 64,789 haJore21 December 2016 · 42 days · 26 km away
- 21,905 haPochalla27 December 2016 · 16 days · 28 km away
- 30,249 haJore27 December 2016 · 23 days · 29 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Jore fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 4 March 2023 and 5 March 2023: 2 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 2,193 hectares (21.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Jore (2,206 ha, 0.6 %).
- 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.