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Wildfires in Butezi

Butezi, Burundi, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 4,882 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Low 29° · 29 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 28° · 32 % · 43 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 30° · 30 % · 39 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 40 % · 37 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 72 % · 37 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 67 % · 32 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 62 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 72 % · 31 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

4,882
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
4
fires
316
km²

How many times has Butezi burned?

Butezi has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Butezi fire, June 2026, with 1,028 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,882 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,511 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
4
years with fire
4,882
cumulative ha
3,511
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Burundi →

Fires that entered Butezi

  1. 1,028 ha Butezi fire, June 2026 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,021 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,982 ha Butezi fire, June 2022 where it started 6.3% of the municipality · 2,000 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 495 ha Bweru fire, July 2021 1.6% of the municipality · 1,024 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,377 ha Butezi fire, July 2018 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 1,378 ha in total · 5 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/New York University Spatial Data Repository, Stanford University, Map Maker Limited (Public Domain). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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