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Wildfires in Gidami

Gidami, Ethiopia, has had 41 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 123,765 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 64% 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. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 48 % · 31 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 70 % · 25 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 60 % · 31 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 64 % · 28 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 68 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 62 % · 24 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 25° · 59 % · 24 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 25° · 70 % · 25 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

123,765
hectares burned
64 %
of its area
41
fires
1,933
km²

How many times has Gidami burned?

Gidami has burned 41 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Gidami fire, March 2026, with 4,440 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 123,765 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 63,123 hectares, 33 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 9× 16
  2. 6× 17
  3. 4× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 5× 26
41
fires
11
years with fire
123,765
cumulative ha
63,123
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 Gidami

  1. 4,440 ha Gidami fire, March 2026 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 4,412 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 420 ha Jimma Horo fire, February 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,345 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 9,329 ha Gidami fire, 9 January 2026 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 9,271 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 2,370 ha Gidami fire, 5 January 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,707 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 4,745 ha Gidami fire, January 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 4,745 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 1,475 ha Gidami fire, 24 December 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,108 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 3,159 ha Gidami fire, February 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,140 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 663 ha Anfilo fire, January 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 2,496 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 604 ha Anfilo fire, March 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 2,258 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 2,865 ha Gidami fire, January 2024 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,847 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 2,081 ha Gidami fire, February 2023 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,081 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 2,932 ha Gidami fire, February 2022 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,914 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 2,779 ha Gidami fire, December 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,839 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 3,464 ha Gidami fire, February 2021 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,442 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 485 ha Anfilo fire, January 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 2,564 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 6,597 ha Gidami fire, January 2021 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 6,561 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 3,498 ha Gidami fire, March 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,477 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 2,726 ha Gidami fire, 16 February 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,709 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 2,030 ha Gidami fire, 8 February 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,018 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 2,260 ha Gidami fire, February 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,246 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 2,448 ha Gidami fire, 2 January 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,434 ha in total · 13 days
  22. 6,850 ha Gidami fire, 2 January 2019 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 6,807 ha in total · 17 days
  23. 3,190 ha Gidami fire, December 2018 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,171 ha in total · 10 days
  24. 740 ha Itang fire, December 2018 0.4% of the municipality · 2,048 ha in total · 12 days
  25. 3,454 ha Gidami fire, 4 January 2018 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,432 ha in total · 12 days
  26. 4,583 ha Gidami fire, 3 January 2018 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 4,652 ha in total · 15 days
  27. 3,227 ha Gidami fire, February 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,173 ha in total · 6 days
  28. 2,366 ha Gidami fire, 9 January 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,352 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 249 ha Anfilo fire, January 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,484 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 2,365 ha Gidami fire, 4 January 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,350 ha in total · 10 days
  31. 2,789 ha Gidami fire, 4 January 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,771 ha in total · 4 days
  32. 4,004 ha Gidami fire, 3 January 2017 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 3,980 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 5,035 ha Gidami fire, 30 December 2016 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 5,004 ha in total · 12 days
  34. 2,209 ha Gidami fire, 19 December 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,196 ha in total · 4 days
  35. 3,276 ha Gidami fire, 18 December 2016 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,782 ha in total · 7 days
  36. 2,716 ha Gidami fire, 11 December 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,700 ha in total · 6 days
  37. 1,339 ha Anfilo fire, March 2016 0.7% of the municipality · 3,059 ha in total · 5 days
  38. 1,709 ha Gidami fire, February 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,023 ha in total · 14 days
  39. 2,457 ha Gidami fire, 28 January 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,442 ha in total · 12 days
  40. 3,481 ha Gidami fire, 16 January 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,459 ha in total · 6 days
  41. 6,357 ha Gidami fire, 10 January 2016 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 6,318 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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