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Wildfires in Begi

Begi, Ethiopia, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2017: 1,917 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Fri 23 Very low 27° · 42 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 41 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 25° · 53 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 25° · 60 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 71 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 73 % · 36 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 59 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 55 % · 26 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

1,917
hectares burned
1.8 %
of its area
1
fires
1,038
km²

How many times has Begi burned?

Begi has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2017. The most recent: Begi fire, January 2017, with 1,917 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
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  10.   25
  11.   26
1
fires
1
years with fire
1,917
cumulative ha
13 Jan 2017
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 Begi

  1. 1,917 ha Begi fire, January 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 7,198 ha in total · 7 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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