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Wildfires in Gisuru

Gisuru, Burundi, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 4,037 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.7% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 29 % · 32 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 33° · 32 % · 36 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 42 % · 28 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 56 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 70 % · 28 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 25° · 66 % · 24 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 26° · 62 % · 31 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 26° · 62 % · 22 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

4,037
hectares burned
7.7 %
of its area
4
fires
523
km²

How many times has Gisuru burned?

Gisuru has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Gisuru fire, August 2026, with 668 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,037 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,636 hectares, 7.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
3
years with fire
4,037
cumulative ha
3,636
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 Gisuru

  1. 668 ha Gisuru fire, August 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,462 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 814 ha Bweru fire, August 2024 1.6% of the municipality · 1,740 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1,430 ha Ruyigi fire, August 2020 2.7% of the municipality · 2,007 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 1,125 ha Gisuru fire, July 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,117 ha in total · 7 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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