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Wildfires in Ibantu

Ibantu, Ethiopia, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 5,711 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 49 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 24° · 48 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 25° · 38 % · 30 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Low 25° · 36 % · 30 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Low 25° · 37 % · 20 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Low 25° · 38 % · 25 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Low 25° · 30 % · 23 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

5,711
hectares burned
6.7 %
of its area
10
fires
858
km²

How many times has Ibantu burned?

Ibantu has burned 10 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Yaso fire, 13 February 2026, with 354 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,711 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,062 hectares, 3.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
10
fires
6
years with fire
5,711
cumulative ha
3,062
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 Ibantu

  1. 354 ha Yaso fire, 13 February 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 7,432 ha in total · 21 days
  2. 1 ha Yaso fire, 25 February 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,261 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 22 ha Gida Ayana fire, 10 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,253 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 837 ha Yaso fire, 16 February 2020 1.0% of the municipality · 4,506 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 1,813 ha Ibantu fire, February 2019 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,935 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 654 ha Gida Ayana fire, February 2017 0.8% of the municipality · 2,817 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 23 ha Yaso fire, 1 January 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 11,905 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 743 ha Ibantu fire, February 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,506 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 498 ha Gida Ayana fire, 16 February 2016 0.6% of the municipality · 4,320 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 765 ha Yaso fire, 5 January 2016 0.9% of the municipality · 8,828 ha in total · 17 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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