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Wildfires in Guangua

Guangua, Ethiopia, has had 29 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 44,854 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 48 % · 24 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Low 26° · 41 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Low 26° · 41 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Low 26° · 33 % · 27 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Low 27° · 35 % · 28 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Low 27° · 34 % · 22 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Moderate 28° · 28 % · 36 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

44,854
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
29
fires
2,346
km²

How many times has Guangua burned?

Guangua has burned 29 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mandura fire, March 2026, with 609 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 44,854 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 25,789 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 7× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 4× 26
29
fires
8
years with fire
44,854
cumulative ha
25,789
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 Guangua

  1. 609 ha Mandura fire, March 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 2,082 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,966 ha Guangua fire, February 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,740 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 1,321 ha Dangura fire, 10 February 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 92,220 ha in total · 39 days
  4. 3,468 ha Guangua fire, January 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,448 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 1 ha Yaso fire, November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,805 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 719 ha Dibat fire, March 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 2,792 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 1,102 ha Guangua fire, March 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,106 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 1,020 ha Dibat fire, 19 February 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 3,389 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 1,041 ha Dibat fire, 3 February 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 3,600 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 3,146 ha Guangua fire, 31 December 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,132 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 2,720 ha Guangua fire, 20 December 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,720 ha in total · 21 days
  12. 1,494 ha Dibat fire, 14 March 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 4,902 ha in total · 10 days
  13. 2,223 ha Dibat fire, 5 March 2020 1.0% of the municipality · 3,469 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 2,238 ha Guangua fire, February 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,226 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 2,677 ha Dibat fire, 8 January 2020 1.1% of the municipality · 2,783 ha in total · 15 days
  16. 2,977 ha Guangua fire, January 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,702 ha in total · 14 days
  17. 806 ha Dibat fire, 8 March 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 4,965 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 2,575 ha Guangua fire, January 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,560 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 237 ha Guangua fire, December 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 4,833 ha in total · 22 days
  20. 88 ha Dibat fire, January 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 3,615 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 2,578 ha Guangua fire, January 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,564 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 2,000 ha Dibat fire, 3 March 2017 0.8% of the municipality · 4,986 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 51 ha Dangura fire, 19 February 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 39,054 ha in total · 18 days
  24. 1,181 ha Guangua fire, February 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,159 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 3,954 ha Guangua fire, 10 December 2016 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 5,733 ha in total · 19 days
  26. 340 ha Guangua fire, 4 December 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,298 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 1,779 ha Dibat fire, 8 March 2016 0.8% of the municipality · 6,018 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 543 ha Guangua fire, March 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,738 ha in total · 10 days
  29. 0 ha Dibat fire, 4 January 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,313 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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