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Wildfires in Kigamba

Kigamba, Burundi, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 19,040 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 35% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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° · 54 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 28° · 42 % · 35 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 45 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 28° · 45 % · 37 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 51 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 59 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 70 % · 39 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 87 % · 44 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

19,040
hectares burned
35 %
of its area
15
fires
545
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kigamba

  1. 85 ha Cankuzo fire, July 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 2,372 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 82 ha Cankuzo fire, July 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 1,094 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,360 ha Kigamba fire, July 2022 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,351 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,307 ha Kigamba fire, June 2022 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,298 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 733 ha Cankuzo fire, June 2022 1.3% of the municipality · 1,010 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 888 ha Kigamba fire, June 2021 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,030 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 2,095 ha Buhinyuza fire, August 2020 3.8% of the municipality · 2,151 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,614 ha Kigamba fire, July 2020 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,603 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 2,721 ha Kigamba fire, June 2019 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 2,736 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 1,784 ha Kigamba fire, June 2018 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 1,774 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 1,109 ha Kigamba fire, 23 June 2017 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,101 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 1,017 ha Kigamba fire, 9 June 2017 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,010 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 1,821 ha Kigamba fire, July 2016 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 1,827 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 1,384 ha Kigamba fire, 25 June 2016 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,375 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 1,042 ha Kigamba fire, 7 June 2016 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,035 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).