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Wildfires in Bambasi

Bambasi, Ethiopia, has had 21 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 78,802 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 59% 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. Thu 5 Moderate 31° · 25 % · 22 km/h
  2. Fri 6 High 30° · 25 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sat 7 High 33° · 17 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sun 8 High 33° · 18 % · 33 km/h
  5. Mon 9 High 31° · 26 % · 37 km/h
  6. Tue 10 High 31° · 31 % · 35 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Low 30° · 35 % · 32 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Moderate 30° · 29 % · 41 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 Bambasi: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

78,802
hectares burned
59 %
of its area
21
fires
1,340
km²

How many times has Bambasi burned?

Bambasi has burned 21 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Bambasi fire, February 2026, with 3,148 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 78,802 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 30,737 hectares, 23 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
21
fires
9
years with fire
78,802
cumulative ha
30,737
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 Bambasi

  1. 3,148 ha Bambasi fire, February 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 3,127 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 3,733 ha Bambasi fire, January 2023 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 5,227 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 3,096 ha Assosa fire, 4 February 2022 2.3% of the municipality · 3,888 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 10 ha Assosa fire, January 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,584 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 5,069 ha Bambasi fire, February 2021 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 10,932 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 2,188 ha Bambasi fire, 17 January 2021 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,175 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 2,571 ha Bambasi fire, 16 January 2021 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,555 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 3,394 ha Assosa fire, January 2020 2.5% of the municipality · 10,015 ha in total · 23 days
  9. 2,809 ha Bambasi fire, February 2019 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,790 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 3,372 ha Bambasi fire, 22 January 2019 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 3,351 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 8,268 ha Bambasi fire, 10 January 2019 where it started 6.2% of the municipality · 13,495 ha in total · 22 days
  12. 2,206 ha Bambasi fire, January 2018 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,243 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 84 ha Assosa fire, January 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 2,495 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 4,002 ha Bambasi fire, December 2017 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 3,978 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 5,897 ha Bambasi fire, 24 January 2017 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 6,151 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 7,548 ha Bambasi fire, 22 January 2017 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 7,502 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 2,747 ha Assosa fire, 7 January 2017 2.0% of the municipality · 11,491 ha in total · 14 days
  18. 2,884 ha Bambasi fire, February 2016 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 10,971 ha in total · 20 days
  19. 747 ha Assosa fire, 20 January 2016 0.6% of the municipality · 3,516 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 1,027 ha Maokomo Special fire, 18 January 2016 0.8% of the municipality · 2,358 ha in total · 15 days
  21. 14,002 ha Bambasi fire, January 2016 where it started 10% of the municipality · 15,694 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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