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Wildfires in Gimbi

Gimbi, Ethiopia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 4,315 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.4% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

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 31 Moderate 30° · 33 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Moderate 30° · 28 % · 30 km/h
  3. Mon 2 High 32° · 22 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 3 High 32° · 22 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 4 High 33° · 20 % · 30 km/h
  6. Thu 5 High 32° · 18 % · 38 km/h
  7. Fri 6 High 32° · 17 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sat 7 High 32° · 17 % · 39 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

4,315
hectares burned
4.4 %
of its area
3
fires
983
km²

How many times has Gimbi burned?

Gimbi has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Gimbi fire, March 2026, with 2,392 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
4,315
cumulative ha
6 Mar 2026
most recent

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 Gimbi

  1. 2,392 ha Gimbi fire, March 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,377 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 686 ha Bio Jiganifado fire, January 2023 0.7% of the municipality · 2,407 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 1,237 ha Kamashi fire, 3 February 2021 1.3% of the municipality · 2,186 ha in total · 6 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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