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Wildfires in Bilidigilu

Bilidigilu, Ethiopia, has had 21 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 46,184 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 35).

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. Mon 2 High 37° · 18 % · 26 km/h
  2. Tue 3 High 37° · 14 % · 25 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very high 38° · 17 % · 35 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very high 37° · 9 % · 27 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very high 37° · 12 % · 33 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very high 38° · 13 % · 29 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very high 38° · 15 % · 36 km/h
  8. Mon 9 High 37° · 19 % · 35 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

46,184
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
21
fires
1,606
km²

How many times has Bilidigilu burned?

Bilidigilu has burned 21 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Bilidigilu fire, February 2026, with 3,095 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 46,184 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 31,871 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 8× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
21
fires
7
years with fire
46,184
cumulative ha
31,871
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 Bilidigilu

  1. 3,095 ha Bilidigilu fire, February 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,076 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 370 ha Sirba Abay fire, 24 January 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 2,506 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 3,154 ha Sirba Abay fire, February 2021 2.0% of the municipality · 3,593 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 2,171 ha Bilidigilu fire, 18 February 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,158 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 2,215 ha Bilidigilu fire, 6 February 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,200 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 3,580 ha Bilidigilu fire, March 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 4,185 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2,214 ha Bilidigilu fire, February 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,451 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 288 ha Bilidigilu fire, January 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,421 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 2,271 ha Bilidigilu fire, 24 February 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,306 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 1,784 ha Bilidigilu fire, 7 February 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,148 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 2,149 ha Bilidigilu fire, 28 January 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,136 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 5,341 ha Bilidigilu fire, 7 January 2017 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 5,306 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 1,294 ha Menge fire, 5 January 2017 0.8% of the municipality · 6,944 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 2,065 ha Menge fire, 5 January 2017 1.3% of the municipality · 2,074 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 2,142 ha Bilidigilu fire, 5 January 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,116 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 1,996 ha Bilidigilu fire, 4 January 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,236 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 2,623 ha Bilidigilu fire, 13 February 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,607 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 2,919 ha Sirba Abay fire, 9 February 2016 1.8% of the municipality · 3,244 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 2,237 ha Bilidigilu fire, 9 February 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,235 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 183 ha Menge fire, 30 January 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 4,251 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 2,093 ha Bilidigilu fire, January 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,121 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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