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Wildfires in Abobo

Abobo, Ethiopia, has had 42 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 104,766 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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 24 High 38° · 24 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 38° · 23 % · 43 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 37° · 36 % · 32 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 60 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 35° · 42 % · 24 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 35° · 44 % · 27 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 35° · 42 % · 24 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 35° · 42 % · 26 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

104,766
hectares burned
34 %
of its area
42
fires
3,124
km²

How many times has Abobo burned?

Abobo has burned 42 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Abobo fire, 24 February 2026, with 2,160 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 7× 16
  2. 7× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 5× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 7× 26
42
fires
11
years with fire
104,766
cumulative ha
24 Feb 2026
most recent

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 Abobo

  1. 2,160 ha Abobo fire, 24 February 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,146 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 2,091 ha Abobo fire, 17 February 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,077 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 673 ha Jore fire, February 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 76,225 ha in total · 35 days
  4. 2,418 ha Abobo fire, 10 February 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,402 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 9,608 ha Itang fire, 24 January 2026 3.1% of the municipality · 22,587 ha in total · 52 days
  6. 2,421 ha Abobo fire, January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,405 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 2,197 ha Itang fire, 2 January 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 10,013 ha in total · 14 days
  8. 972 ha Abobo fire, December 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,057 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 2,507 ha Abobo fire, February 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,490 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 446 ha Itang fire, February 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 2,239 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 2,433 ha Abobo fire, January 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,903 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 1,679 ha Abobo fire, March 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,110 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 2,847 ha Abobo fire, February 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,828 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 2,734 ha Abobo fire, 28 January 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,716 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 2,347 ha Abobo fire, 27 January 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,331 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 2,160 ha Abobo fire, 12 January 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,146 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 4,778 ha Gambella Wild Life Reserve fire, 29 March 2021 1.5% of the municipality · 22,025 ha in total · 21 days
  18. 2,162 ha Abobo fire, 27 February 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,147 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 2,192 ha Abobo fire, 24 February 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,637 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 3,179 ha Abobo fire, 18 January 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,158 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 4,611 ha Abobo fire, 15 January 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 4,580 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 2,277 ha Abobo fire, April 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,262 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 3,084 ha Abobo fire, February 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,063 ha in total · 7 days
  24. 2,455 ha Abobo fire, 29 January 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,439 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 2,425 ha Abobo fire, 12 January 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,409 ha in total · 1 day
  26. 2,509 ha Abobo fire, February 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,860 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 2,435 ha Abobo fire, 6 January 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,580 ha in total · 7 days
  28. 2,411 ha Abobo fire, 1 January 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,395 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 2,939 ha Abobo fire, December 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,928 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 1 ha Jore fire, March 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,374 ha in total · 5 days
  31. 2,650 ha Abobo fire, March 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,607 ha in total · 11 days
  32. 3,474 ha Abobo fire, February 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,450 ha in total · 1 day
  33. 990 ha Gambella Wild Life Reserve fire, February 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 4,379 ha in total · 2 days
  34. 1,281 ha Abobo fire, 28 January 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,183 ha in total · 3 days
  35. 5,527 ha Abobo fire, 26 January 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 5,880 ha in total · 8 days
  36. 2,989 ha Abobo fire, 31 December 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,969 ha in total · 2 days
  37. 2,484 ha Itang fire, 27 December 2016 0.8% of the municipality · 3,279 ha in total · 4 days
  38. 514 ha Gog fire, 25 December 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 3,148 ha in total · 7 days
  39. 2,242 ha Abobo fire, 15 December 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,227 ha in total · 3 days
  40. 838 ha Gog fire, 8 December 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 2,745 ha in total · 6 days
  41. 4,456 ha Abobo fire, February 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,426 ha in total · 9 days
  42. 171 ha Gambela Zuria fire, January 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,623 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/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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