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Wildfires in Hamer

Hamer, Ethiopia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 9,546 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.6% 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. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 59 % · 49 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 73 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 54 % · 18 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 48 % · 30 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Low 30° · 48 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 30° · 45 % · 45 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

9,546
hectares burned
1.6 %
of its area
3
fires
6,038
km²

How many times has Hamer burned?

Hamer has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2018. The most recent: Hamer fire, August 2018, with 3,086 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
9,546
cumulative ha
11 Aug 2018
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 Hamer

  1. 3,086 ha Hamer fire, August 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,094 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 4,387 ha Hamer fire, September 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,752 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 2,072 ha Hamer fire, March 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,441 ha in total · 2 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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