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Wildfires in Esira

Esira, Ethiopia, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 28,824 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 27% 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. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 52 % · 26 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 55 % · 24 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 44 % · 25 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Low 29° · 33 % · 28 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Low 30° · 27 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Moderate 30° · 28 % · 27 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Moderate 31° · 25 % · 25 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Moderate 31° · 25 % · 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

28,824
hectares burned
27 %
of its area
15
fires
1,066
km²

How many times has Esira burned?

Esira has burned 15 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 17 January 2025, with 24 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 28,824 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 19,104 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
15
fires
8
years with fire
28,824
cumulative ha
19,104
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 Esira

  1. 24 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 17 January 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 4,671 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 57 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, February 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 3,435 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 2,152 ha Esira fire, February 2022 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,138 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 5,456 ha Esira fire, January 2021 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 5,422 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 2,401 ha Esira fire, 12 January 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,468 ha in total · 20 days
  6. 3 ha Tocha fire, January 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 3,295 ha in total · 21 days
  7. 544 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 3 January 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 18,505 ha in total · 23 days
  8. 1,572 ha Melekoza fire, 2 January 2019 1.5% of the municipality · 11,494 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 7,991 ha Esira fire, 2 January 2019 where it started 7.5% of the municipality · 9,463 ha in total · 18 days
  10. 1,152 ha Esira fire, January 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,075 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 2,479 ha Esira fire, January 2017 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,464 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,792 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 22 December 2016 1.7% of the municipality · 20,202 ha in total · 34 days
  13. 3,184 ha Esira fire, December 2016 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 10,858 ha in total · 29 days
  14. 0 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 16 February 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 5,531 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 17 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 15 February 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,932 ha in total · 10 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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