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Wildfires in Anfilo

Anfilo, Ethiopia, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 37,700 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 27% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 10 Moderate 32° · 37 % · 27 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Low 29° · 56 % · 27 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Moderate 30° · 45 % · 26 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Moderate 30° · 38 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 28° · 58 % · 26 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 30° · 47 % · 25 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 30° · 49 % · 24 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Low 31° · 43 % · 28 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 Anfilo: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

37,700
hectares burned
27 %
of its area
20
fires
1,411
km²

How many times has Anfilo burned?

Anfilo has burned 20 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Itang fire, 3 January 2026, with 2,519 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 37,700 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 25,130 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
20
fires
9
years with fire
37,700
cumulative ha
25,130
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 Anfilo

  1. 364 ha Itang fire, November 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 2,519 ha Itang fire, 3 January 2026 1.8% of the municipality · 4,011 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 2,743 ha Anfilo fire, December 2025 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,727 ha in total · 23 days
  4. 1,849 ha Anfilo fire, January 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,496 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 1,918 ha Anfilo fire, December 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,094 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 1,669 ha Anfilo fire, March 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,258 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 2,077 ha Anfilo fire, January 2024 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,376 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 2,089 ha Anfilo fire, February 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,075 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,992 ha Gambela Zuria fire, 9 February 2021 1.4% of the municipality · 3,043 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 2,095 ha Anfilo fire, January 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,564 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 2,168 ha Anfilo fire, March 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,153 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 120 ha Gambela Zuria fire, February 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 2,046 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 2,816 ha Anfilo fire, January 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,798 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 2,177 ha Anfilo fire, January 2018 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,163 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 972 ha Gidami fire, February 2017 0.7% of the municipality · 4,173 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 2,252 ha Anfilo fire, January 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,484 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 0 ha Sayo fire, 29 December 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,725 ha in total · 14 days
  18. 529 ha Gidami fire, 18 December 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 3,782 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 3,787 ha Anfilo fire, December 2016 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 6,282 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 1,740 ha Anfilo fire, March 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,059 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 2,188 ha Anfilo fire, January 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,175 ha in total · 11 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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