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Wildfires in Hitosa

Hitosa, Ethiopia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 1,011 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.4% 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. Tue 27 Very low 16° · 77 % · 29 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 15° · 76 % · 47 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 37 % · 61 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 44 % · 52 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 46 % · 54 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 17° · 49 % · 56 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Low 17° · 35 % · 52 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Low 18° · 36 % · 51 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

1,011
hectares burned
1.4 %
of its area
3
fires
705
km²

How many times has Hitosa burned?

Hitosa has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2018, 2021 and 2025. The most recent: Lude Hitosa fire, February 2025, with 867 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
1,011
cumulative ha
4 Feb 2025
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 Hitosa

  1. 867 ha Lude Hitosa fire, February 2025 1.2% of the municipality · 3,596 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 89 ha Tiyo fire, March 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 2,578 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 55 ha Degeluna Tijo fire, February 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 2,726 ha in total · 1 day

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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