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Wildfires in Bure Mudaytu

Bure Mudaytu, Ethiopia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 14,355 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 23).

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 34° · 17 % · 15 km/h
  2. Tue 3 High 34° · 19 % · 16 km/h
  3. Wed 4 High 34° · 17 % · 18 km/h
  4. Thu 5 High 34° · 27 % · 18 km/h
  5. Fri 6 High 34° · 24 % · 26 km/h
  6. Sat 7 High 34° · 32 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sun 8 High 35° · 35 % · 32 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Moderate 35° · 37 % · 34 km/h
  9. Tue 10 Low 33° · 44 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

14,355
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
4
fires
1,111
km²

How many times has Bure Mudaytu burned?

Bure Mudaytu has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Bure Mudaytu fire, June 2026, with 2,024 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,355 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,066 hectares, 5.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
4
years with fire
14,355
cumulative ha
6,066
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 Bure Mudaytu

  1. 2,024 ha Bure Mudaytu fire, June 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,564 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 3,263 ha Bure Mudaytu fire, March 2022 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 3,244 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 5,160 ha Gewane fire, December 2020 4.6% of the municipality · 6,441 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 3,908 ha Bure Mudaytu fire, March 2019 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 4,346 ha in total · 12 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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