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Wildfires in Amuru

Amuru, Ethiopia, has had 36 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 66,311 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 57% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 Low 22° · 44 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 23° · 47 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 55 % · 32 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 65 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 55 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 45 % · 25 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 23° · 41 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 23° · 37 % · 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

66,311
hectares burned
57 %
of its area
36
fires
1,168
km²

How many times has Amuru burned?

Amuru has burned 36 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Amuru fire, February 2026, with 2,435 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 66,311 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 33,386 hectares, 29 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 9× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 3× 26
36
fires
11
years with fire
66,311
cumulative ha
33,386
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 Amuru

  1. 2,435 ha Amuru fire, February 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,742 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 930 ha Amuru fire, 15 January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,380 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,224 ha Amuru fire, 12 January 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,253 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 3,116 ha Amuru fire, December 2025 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 3,353 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 26 ha Debre Elias fire, December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,638 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 89 ha Jarte Jardega fire, December 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 4,088 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 31 ha Bure fire, November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,268 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 2,009 ha Amuru fire, January 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,145 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 6 ha Debre Elias fire, December 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,893 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 5 ha Bure fire, January 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,149 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 1,914 ha Amuru fire, February 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,274 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 11 ha Bure fire, 26 January 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 7,742 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 2,035 ha Amuru fire, January 2022 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,021 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 2,618 ha Kiremu fire, 24 January 2022 2.2% of the municipality · 6,444 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 6 ha Debre Elias fire, December 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,907 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 554 ha Bure fire, December 2021 0.5% of the municipality · 2,393 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 3,736 ha Amuru fire, 10 December 2021 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 4,169 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 4,682 ha Amuru fire, 7 December 2021 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 5,319 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 4,156 ha Amuru fire, March 2021 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 4,313 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 8 ha Debre Elias fire, February 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 4,519 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 4,998 ha Kiremu fire, January 2021 4.3% of the municipality · 7,036 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 3,226 ha Amuru fire, January 2021 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 3,830 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 4,156 ha Debre Elias fire, January 2021 3.6% of the municipality · 4,775 ha in total · 8 days
  24. 56 ha Jarte Jardega fire, 25 December 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,458 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 7 ha Dembecha fire, January 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 5,366 ha in total · 7 days
  26. 4,047 ha Amuru fire, January 2020 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 4,236 ha in total · 6 days
  27. 5,838 ha Amuru fire, 18 January 2019 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 7,468 ha in total · 6 days
  28. 2,355 ha Amuru fire, 6 January 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,549 ha in total · 7 days
  29. 3,755 ha Amuru fire, 4 January 2019 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 3,930 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 2,536 ha Dembecha fire, December 2018 2.2% of the municipality · 10,555 ha in total · 10 days
  31. 2,842 ha Amuru fire, December 2017 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 3,441 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 657 ha Bure fire, November 2017 0.6% of the municipality · 8,418 ha in total · 9 days
  33. 247 ha Debre Elias fire, November 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 3,338 ha in total · 5 days
  34. 50 ha Bure fire, December 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 9,701 ha in total · 8 days
  35. 1 ha Debre Elias fire, December 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,322 ha in total · 2 days
  36. 950 ha Debre Elias fire, 18 November 2016 0.8% of the municipality · 2,766 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).

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