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Wildfires in Cheta

Cheta, Ethiopia, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 47,102 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 71% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 26° · 37 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 25° · 47 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 66 % · 24 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 24° · 62 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 94 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 23° · 71 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 23° · 73 % · 27 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 23° · 78 % · 24 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

47,102
hectares burned
71 %
of its area
17
fires
666
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Cheta

  1. 5,817 ha Cheta fire, January 2026 where it started 8.7% of the municipality · 7,313 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 56 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 30 December 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 4,064 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 1,952 ha Cheta fire, December 2024 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 2,021 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 1,486 ha Cheta fire, November 2024 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,141 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 9 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 10 December 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,801 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 2,869 ha Cheta fire, December 2021 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 2,851 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 2,276 ha Cheta fire, January 2021 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 2,262 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 1,372 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 21 January 2021 2.1% of the municipality · 2,421 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 73 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 17 January 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 8,026 ha in total · 15 days
  10. 220 ha Decha fire, 14 January 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 3,151 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 1,972 ha Cheta fire, December 2020 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 2,296 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 226 ha Decha fire, 30 January 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 3,132 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 13,625 ha Cheta fire, January 2019 where it started 20% of the municipality · 14,263 ha in total · 17 days
  14. 2,031 ha Cheta fire, December 2016 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 2,018 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 9,222 ha Decha fire, 30 December 2016 14% of the municipality · 19,581 ha in total · 16 days
  16. 1,553 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 22 December 2016 2.3% of the municipality · 17,621 ha in total · 28 days
  17. 2,343 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 29 February 2016 3.5% of the municipality · 2,407 ha in total · 3 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).