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Wildfires in Cankuzo

Cankuzo, Burundi, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 5,512 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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. Fri 23 Very low 25° · 50 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 29° · 31 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 40 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 28° · 37 % · 40 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 37 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 65 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 73 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 84 % · 47 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

5,512
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
11
fires
475
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Cankuzo

  1. 163 ha Gisuru fire, August 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 1,462 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 2,304 ha Cankuzo fire, July 2023 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 2,372 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 1,020 ha Cankuzo fire, July 2022 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,094 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 284 ha Cankuzo fire, June 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,010 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 148 ha Kigamba fire, June 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 1,030 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 53 ha Buhinyuza fire, August 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 2,151 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 310 ha Cankuzo fire, June 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,162 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 33 ha Kigamba fire, June 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 2,736 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 6 ha Bweru fire, July 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,223 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 2 ha Kigamba fire, June 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,774 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 1,190 ha Cankuzo fire, June 2016 where it started 2.5% 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).