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Wildfires in Dembecha

Dembecha, Ethiopia, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 8,335 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.6% 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 24 Low 24° · 36 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 24° · 43 % · 24 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 23° · 46 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 52 % · 24 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 40 % · 28 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 38 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 24° · 40 % · 23 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

8,335
hectares burned
8.6 %
of its area
8
fires
970
km²

How many times has Dembecha burned?

Dembecha has burned 8 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Dembecha fire, January 2023, with 2,278 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,335 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,900 hectares, 4.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
8
fires
7
years with fire
8,335
cumulative ha
3,900
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 Dembecha

  1. 2,278 ha Dembecha fire, January 2023 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,891 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 614 ha Bure fire, 26 January 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 7,742 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 26 ha Debre Elias fire, February 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 4,519 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 2,086 ha Dembecha fire, January 2021 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,074 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,270 ha Dembecha fire, January 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 5,366 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 203 ha Dembecha fire, December 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 10,555 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 1,398 ha Bure fire, November 2017 1.4% of the municipality · 8,418 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 461 ha Bure fire, December 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 9,701 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).

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