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Wildfires in Chilga

Chilga, Ethiopia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 3,707 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.1% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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 26 Moderate 35° · 24 % · 23 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Moderate 34° · 27 % · 33 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Low 33° · 30 % · 22 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 23 % · 21 km/h
  5. Fri 30 High 36° · 23 % · 26 km/h
  6. Sat 31 High 36° · 21 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sun 1 High 36° · 19 % · 35 km/h
  8. Mon 2 High 36° · 18 % · 25 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

3,707
hectares burned
1.1 %
of its area
2
fires
3,235
km²

How many times has Chilga burned?

Chilga has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2025. The most recent: Chilga fire, December 2025, with 1,432 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
3,707
cumulative ha
11 Dec 2025
most recent

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 Chilga

  1. 1,432 ha Chilga fire, December 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,160 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 2,275 ha Chilga fire, January 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,262 ha in total · 2 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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