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Wildfires in Chole

Chole, Ethiopia, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2021: 2,143 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 20° · 46 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 19° · 64 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 18° · 68 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 16° · 79 % · 29 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 18° · 55 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 18° · 55 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 26 % · 29 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 48 % · 30 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

2,143
hectares burned
3.6 %
of its area
1
fires
601
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Chole

  1. 2,143 ha Chole fire, March 2021 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 2,129 ha in total · 6 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).