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Wildfires in Abeshege

Abeshege, Ethiopia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 1,381 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Tue 10 Very low 29° · 43 % · 21 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 29° · 43 % · 19 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 28° · 46 % · 22 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very low 29° · 45 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 28° · 35 % · 17 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 29° · 33 % · 16 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Low 29° · 37 % · 17 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Low 30° · 30 % · 17 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Abeshege: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,381
hectares burned
2.5 %
of its area
3
fires
551
km²

How many times has Abeshege burned?

Abeshege has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Chora fire, January 2026, with 13 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,381 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,275 hectares, 2.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
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  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
1,381
cumulative ha
1,275
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 Abeshege

  1. 13 ha Chora fire, January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,057 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 126 ha Cheha fire, February 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 2,236 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 1,242 ha Cheha fire, January 2017 2.2% of the municipality · 3,746 ha in total · 16 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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