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Wildfires in Omhajer

Omhajer, Eritrea, has had 30 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 58,271 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 46).

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 Extreme 40° · 17 % · 33 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very high 39° · 19 % · 27 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Extreme 40° · 14 % · 34 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Extreme 41° · 10 % · 35 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Extreme 41° · 10 % · 38 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Extreme 42° · 10 % · 37 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Extreme 41° · 10 % · 35 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Extreme 41° · 7 % · 35 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

58,271
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
30
fires
5,044
km²

How many times has Omhajer burned?

Omhajer has burned 30 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Omhajer fire, March 2026, with 967 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 58,271 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 46,718 hectares, 9.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 10× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 8× 25
  11. 2× 26
30
fires
7
years with fire
58,271
cumulative ha
46,718
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 Eritrea →

Fires that entered Omhajer

  1. 967 ha Omhajer fire, March 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,015 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,139 ha Omhajer fire, February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,133 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,042 ha Haykota fire, December 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 1,175 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,955 ha Omhajer fire, 25 November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,946 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,836 ha Omhajer fire, 21 November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,828 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,886 ha Omhajer fire, 20 November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,872 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,018 ha Omhajer fire, May 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,014 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,193 ha Omhajer fire, 31 March 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,187 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 1,151 ha Omhajer fire, 29 March 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,281 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 1,126 ha Omhajer fire, January 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,119 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 1,089 ha Omhajer fire, February 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,083 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 2,046 ha Omhajer fire, 31 January 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,081 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,126 ha Omhajer fire, 14 January 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,120 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 1,729 ha Omhajer fire, November 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,721 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 1,706 ha Omhajer fire, May 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,699 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 1,275 ha Omhajer fire, December 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,269 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 1,005 ha Omhajer fire, October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,000 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 1,448 ha Omhajer fire, April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,439 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 3,230 ha Omhajer fire, 31 March 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,209 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 1,728 ha Omhajer fire, 14 March 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,719 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 1,896 ha Omhajer fire, 3 March 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,998 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 5,816 ha Omhajer fire, 1 March 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,786 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 1,768 ha Omhajer fire, February 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,756 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 2,129 ha Omhajer fire, 29 January 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,117 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 1,901 ha Omhajer fire, 2 January 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,892 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 1,596 ha Omhajer fire, 29 December 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,588 ha in total · 2 days
  27. 1,465 ha Omhajer fire, 22 December 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,459 ha in total · 5 days
  28. 2,472 ha Omhajer fire, April 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,459 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 1,890 ha Omhajer fire, February 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,882 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 7,641 ha Omhajer fire, January 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 7,691 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/OCHA ROSEA, OCHA ROSEA (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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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