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Wildfires in Decha

Decha, Ethiopia, has had 33 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 98,506 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

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 Moderate 35° · 22 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 34° · 30 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 32° · 44 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 33° · 40 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 71 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 52 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 57 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 60 % · 28 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

98,506
hectares burned
34 %
of its area
33
fires
2,928
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Decha

  1. 1,543 ha Cheta fire, January 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 7,313 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 2,557 ha Menit Goldiye fire, December 2025 0.9% of the municipality · 3,446 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 2,197 ha Decha fire, January 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,183 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 30 December 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 4,064 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 669 ha Cheta fire, November 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 2,141 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 2,339 ha Decha fire, February 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,323 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 2,646 ha Decha fire, December 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,629 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 12,866 ha Decha fire, 30 January 2021 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 18,545 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 5,195 ha Decha fire, 22 January 2021 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 6,479 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 2,671 ha Decha fire, 21 January 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,655 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 27 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 17 January 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 8,026 ha in total · 15 days
  12. 1,230 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 15 January 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 2,408 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 2,951 ha Decha fire, 14 January 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,151 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 3,863 ha Decha fire, 13 January 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,838 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 5,878 ha Decha fire, 31 January 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 5,839 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 2,928 ha Decha fire, 30 January 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,132 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 67 ha Selamgo fire, 26 January 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,600 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 129 ha Selamgo fire, 20 January 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,801 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 3,871 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 19 January 2019 1.3% of the municipality · 10,767 ha in total · 19 days
  20. 3,380 ha Decha fire, 15 January 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,439 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 4,767 ha Decha fire, 10 January 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,736 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 2,348 ha Decha fire, 17 January 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,332 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 2,568 ha Decha fire, 12 January 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,551 ha in total · 8 days
  24. 0 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, January 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,899 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 5,688 ha Decha fire, 31 December 2016 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 5,653 ha in total · 10 days
  26. 2,290 ha Decha fire, 30 December 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,275 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 10,487 ha Decha fire, 30 December 2016 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 19,581 ha in total · 16 days
  28. 2,869 ha Decha fire, 28 December 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,987 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 2,033 ha Decha fire, 24 December 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,071 ha in total · 8 days
  30. 586 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 18 February 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 2,149 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 2,544 ha Decha fire, 12 February 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,527 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 2,273 ha Decha fire, 11 February 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,259 ha in total · 7 days
  33. 3,045 ha Decha fire, 3 February 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,201 ha in total · 8 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).