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Wildfires in Ababo

Ababo, Ethiopia, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 60,966 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 59% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

Only fires of 2,000 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 Low 27° · 33 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 26° · 35 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 27° · 36 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 46 % · 33 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 63 % · 21 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 53 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 42 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 26° · 38 % · 27 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

60,966
hectares burned
59 %
of its area
22
fires
1,026
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Ababo

  1. 1,852 ha Ababo fire, February 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,011 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,875 ha Ababo fire, January 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,025 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 7,604 ha Ababo fire, November 2025 where it started 7.4% of the municipality · 8,072 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 3,507 ha Ababo fire, January 2025 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 3,680 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 2,789 ha Ababo fire, December 2024 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,801 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 3,145 ha Ababo fire, 22 February 2024 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 3,240 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,998 ha Ababo fire, 8 February 2024 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,138 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 2,704 ha Ababo fire, January 2023 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,692 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 2,218 ha Abay Chomen fire, December 2022 2.2% of the municipality · 3,661 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 173 ha Abay Chomen fire, December 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 2,302 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 9,478 ha Ababo fire, December 2021 where it started 9.2% of the municipality · 10,379 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 5,670 ha Ababo fire, February 2021 where it started 5.5% of the municipality · 6,282 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 2,089 ha Ababo fire, 26 January 2021 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,076 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 3,797 ha Ababo fire, 18 January 2021 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 4,086 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 3,305 ha Baso Liben fire, January 2021 3.2% of the municipality · 4,476 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 2,795 ha Ababo fire, January 2019 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,878 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 940 ha Baso Liben fire, December 2018 0.9% of the municipality · 2,155 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 329 ha Abay Chomen fire, December 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 2,211 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 2,005 ha Ababo fire, December 2017 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,006 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 376 ha Ababo fire, November 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,118 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 2,267 ha Ababo fire, December 2016 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,308 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 50 ha Baso Liben fire, February 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,153 ha in total · 5 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Open Africa, Code for Ethiopia (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).