Wildfires in Cheha
Cheha, Ethiopia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 4,907 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.4% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).
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- Thu 22 Low 26° · 35 % · 22 km/h
- Fri 23 Low 26° · 33 % · 20 km/h
- Sat 24 Low 26° · 37 % · 22 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 26° · 51 % · 22 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 26° · 65 % · 26 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 21° · 83 % · 24 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 24° · 64 % · 22 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 25° · 45 % · 18 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
- 4,907
- hectares burned
- 8.4 %
- of its area
- 4
- fires
- 582
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Cheha
- 1,592 ha Cheha fire, January 2026 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,020 ha in total · 8 days
- 1,809 ha Cheha fire, February 2022 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 2,236 ha in total · 5 days
- 1,172 ha Sekoru fire, January 2019 2.0% of the municipality · 2,580 ha in total · 9 days
- 334 ha Cheha fire, January 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,746 ha in total · 10 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).