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Wildfires in Amibara

Amibara, Ethiopia, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 7,034 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.8% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 26).

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 High 34° · 18 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sun 1 High 34° · 18 % · 34 km/h
  3. Mon 2 High 34° · 13 % · 39 km/h
  4. Tue 3 High 35° · 12 % · 36 km/h
  5. Wed 4 High 34° · 13 % · 35 km/h
  6. Thu 5 High 35° · 16 % · 37 km/h
  7. Fri 6 High 35° · 18 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sat 7 High 34° · 26 % · 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

7,034
hectares burned
1.8 %
of its area
5
fires
3,941
km²

How many times has Amibara burned?

Amibara has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2020, 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Mieso fire, December 2024, with 291 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
7,034
cumulative ha
25 Dec 2024
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 Amibara

  1. 291 ha Mieso fire, December 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 3,807 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 160 ha Mieso fire, March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 7,256 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 2,215 ha Amibara fire, March 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,202 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 2,663 ha Amibara fire, December 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,646 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,705 ha Gewane fire, January 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 2,837 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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