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Wildfires in Assosa

Assosa, Ethiopia, has had 30 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 79,169 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 44 % · 24 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 36 % · 25 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 44 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Low 30° · 42 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Low 29° · 45 % · 21 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Low 31° · 39 % · 26 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Moderate 32° · 32 % · 28 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Moderate 31° · 31 % · 32 km/h
  9. Thu 5 Moderate 32° · 22 % · 32 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

79,169
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
30
fires
2,995
km²

How many times has Assosa burned?

Assosa has burned 30 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Bambasi fire, January 2023, with 1,525 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 79,169 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 40,071 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 6× 16
  2. 9× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
30
fires
8
years with fire
79,169
cumulative ha
40,071
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 Assosa

  1. 1,525 ha Bambasi fire, January 2023 0.5% of the municipality · 5,227 ha in total · 20 days
  2. 1,477 ha Assosa fire, 12 February 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,417 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 816 ha Assosa fire, 4 February 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,888 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 2,589 ha Assosa fire, January 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,584 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 5,927 ha Bambasi fire, February 2021 2.0% of the municipality · 10,932 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 1,959 ha Menge fire, 3 February 2021 0.6% of the municipality · 2,371 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 2,611 ha Assosa fire, February 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,594 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 643 ha Homosha fire, February 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 4,551 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 2,168 ha Assosa fire, February 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,156 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 6,735 ha Assosa fire, January 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 10,067 ha in total · 23 days
  11. 2,254 ha Assosa fire, 13 January 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,239 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 5,308 ha Bambasi fire, 10 January 2019 1.8% of the municipality · 13,495 ha in total · 22 days
  13. 565 ha Assosa fire, 8 January 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,518 ha in total · 15 days
  14. 50 ha Bambasi fire, January 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,243 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 2,426 ha Assosa fire, January 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,495 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 2,223 ha Assosa fire, December 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,375 ha in total · 15 days
  17. 2,397 ha Assosa fire, November 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,383 ha in total · 16 days
  18. 833 ha Homosha fire, 29 January 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 2,117 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 2,220 ha Assosa fire, 27 January 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,722 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 292 ha Bambasi fire, 24 January 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 6,151 ha in total · 9 days
  21. 2,327 ha Assosa fire, 12 January 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,315 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 8,813 ha Assosa fire, 7 January 2017 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 11,491 ha in total · 14 days
  23. 3,373 ha Assosa fire, 6 January 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,351 ha in total · 20 days
  24. 30 ha Homosha fire, 5 January 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 4,636 ha in total · 8 days
  25. 1,281 ha Assosa fire, December 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,247 ha in total · 7 days
  26. 8,306 ha Bambasi fire, February 2016 2.8% of the municipality · 11,124 ha in total · 20 days
  27. 2,874 ha Assosa fire, 25 January 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,858 ha in total · 9 days
  28. 2,790 ha Assosa fire, 20 January 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,516 ha in total · 8 days
  29. 2,541 ha Assosa fire, 13 January 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,523 ha in total · 4 days
  30. 1,816 ha Bambasi fire, January 2016 0.6% of the municipality · 15,723 ha in total · 27 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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