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Wildfires in Darimu

Darimu, Ethiopia, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 27,666 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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. Sat 31 Low 31° · 40 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Low 31° · 39 % · 26 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Moderate 32° · 23 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Moderate 34° · 22 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 4 High 34° · 19 % · 32 km/h
  6. Thu 5 High 35° · 19 % · 36 km/h
  7. Fri 6 High 34° · 21 % · 34 km/h
  8. Sat 7 High 34° · 20 % · 33 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

27,666
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
13
fires
1,348
km²

How many times has Darimu burned?

Darimu has burned 13 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Bure fire, 22 February 2026, with 188 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 27,666 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 17,353 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
13
fires
7
years with fire
27,666
cumulative ha
17,353
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 Darimu

  1. 188 ha Bure fire, 22 February 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,074 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,824 ha Darimu fire, March 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,024 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,591 ha Darimu fire, March 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,111 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,911 ha Metu Zuria fire, March 2022 1.4% of the municipality · 2,471 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 1,124 ha Darimu fire, February 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,243 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 3,293 ha Darimu fire, January 2018 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 3,273 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 3,148 ha Metu Zuria fire, 26 January 2017 2.3% of the municipality · 8,132 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 3,014 ha Darimu fire, 11 January 2017 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,459 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 2,526 ha Darimu fire, 11 January 2017 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,511 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 4,513 ha Metu Zuria fire, December 2016 3.4% of the municipality · 11,128 ha in total · 20 days
  11. 717 ha Hawa Galan fire, 15 December 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 4,964 ha in total · 17 days
  12. 1,229 ha Darimu fire, 3 February 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,618 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 2,588 ha Darimu fire, 1 February 2016 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,572 ha in total · 11 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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