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Wildfires in Bweru

Bweru, Burundi, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 5,903 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 Moderate 30° · 24 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 28° · 33 % · 39 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 27° · 36 % · 41 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 27° · 38 % · 38 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 46 % · 46 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 69 % · 33 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 22° · 76 % · 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

5,903
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
8
fires
322
km²

How many times has Bweru burned?

Bweru has burned 8 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Gisuru fire, August 2026, with 640 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,903 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,962 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
8
fires
7
years with fire
5,903
cumulative ha
4,962
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 Bweru

  1. 640 ha Gisuru fire, August 2026 2.0% of the municipality · 1,462 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 938 ha Bweru fire, August 2024 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 1,740 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 536 ha Bweru fire, July 2021 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,024 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 366 ha Ruyigi fire, August 2020 1.1% of the municipality · 2,007 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 860 ha Cankuzo fire, June 2019 2.7% of the municipality · 1,162 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,305 ha Bweru fire, June 2019 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 1,314 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,225 ha Bweru fire, July 2018 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 1,223 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 33 ha Cankuzo fire, June 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,230 ha in total · 3 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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