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Wildfires in Bilo Nopha

Bilo Nopha, Ethiopia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 472 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.5% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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. Sat 7 Moderate 28° · 32 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Moderate 28° · 33 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Moderate 28° · 31 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Low 28° · 40 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 27° · 53 % · 29 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 27° · 49 % · 33 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 26° · 55 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 26° · 86 % · 29 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 Bilo Nopha: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

472
hectares burned
1.5 %
of its area
2
fires
319
km²

How many times has Bilo Nopha burned?

Bilo Nopha has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2024. The most recent: Darimu fire, March 2024, with 154 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 472 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 437 hectares, 1.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
472
cumulative ha
437
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 Bilo Nopha

  1. 154 ha Darimu fire, March 2024 0.5% of the municipality · 2,024 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 318 ha Darimu fire, 11 January 2017 1.0% of the municipality · 3,459 ha in total · 14 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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