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Wildfires in Abay Chomen

Abay Chomen, Ethiopia, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 8,652 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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. Sat 31 Moderate 25° · 32 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Moderate 25° · 26 % · 29 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Moderate 25° · 25 % · 31 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Moderate 25° · 25 % · 33 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Moderate 26° · 27 % · 34 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Moderate 26° · 31 % · 37 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Moderate 26° · 28 % · 34 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Moderate 26° · 30 % · 32 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

8,652
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
5
fires
766
km²

How many times has Abay Chomen burned?

Abay Chomen has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2021, 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Abay Chomen fire, January 2025, with 2,409 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,652 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,356 hectares, 8.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
8,652
cumulative ha
6,356
distinct ha

Fires larger than 2,000 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 Ethiopia →

Fires that entered Abay Chomen

  1. 2,409 ha Abay Chomen fire, January 2025 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 2,393 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 1,249 ha Abay Chomen fire, December 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,661 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 2,024 ha Abay Chomen fire, December 2021 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,302 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 1,870 ha Abay Chomen fire, December 2017 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,211 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,100 ha Ababo fire, November 2017 1.4% of the municipality · 3,118 ha in total · 8 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).

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