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Wildfires in Gewane

Gewane, Ethiopia, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 6,789 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.8% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 High 33° · 36 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 33° · 43 % · 31 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 42 % · 24 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 45 % · 24 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 31° · 28 % · 33 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 31° · 24 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 32° · 24 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 32° · 23 % · 22 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

6,789
hectares burned
0.8 %
of its area
5
fires
8,702
km²

How many times has Gewane burned?

Gewane has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2026. The most recent: Bure Mudaytu fire, June 2026, with 554 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,789 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,885 hectares, 0.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
4
years with fire
6,789
cumulative ha
5,885
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 Gewane

  1. 554 ha Bure Mudaytu fire, June 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,564 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,317 ha Gewane fire, December 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,441 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 3,306 ha Gewane fire, October 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,289 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 462 ha Bure Mudaytu fire, March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 4,346 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,150 ha Gewane fire, January 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,837 ha in total · 3 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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