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Wildfires in Itang

Itang, Ethiopia, has had 35 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 75,593 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 26).

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. Fri 23 High 40° · 21 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 40° · 20 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 39° · 23 % · 32 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 40° · 23 % · 38 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 34° · 41 % · 46 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 34° · 49 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 35° · 38 % · 24 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 36° · 38 % · 21 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

75,593
hectares burned
34 %
of its area
35
fires
2,214
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Itang

  1. 124 ha Lare fire, 9 February 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,135 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,081 ha Itang fire, February 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,069 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 10,792 ha Itang fire, 24 January 2026 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 22,587 ha in total · 52 days
  4. 112 ha Gambela Zuria fire, January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,463 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,519 ha Itang fire, 3 January 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,011 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 7,876 ha Itang fire, 2 January 2026 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 10,013 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 19 ha Gidami fire, 1 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 4,745 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 8,836 ha Itang fire, 24 December 2025 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 8,775 ha in total · 19 days
  9. 596 ha Gidami fire, December 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 2,108 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 5,858 ha Itang fire, 12 December 2025 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 5,819 ha in total · 31 days
  11. 1,054 ha Itang fire, 6 December 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,091 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 2,054 ha Itang fire, November 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,039 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 1,082 ha Itang fire, February 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,239 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 489 ha Abobo fire, January 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 2,903 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 2,127 ha Itang fire, January 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,113 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 446 ha Abobo fire, March 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 2,110 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 2,208 ha Itang fire, January 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,196 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 1 ha Gambella Wild Life Reserve fire, 25 March 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,515 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 216 ha Itang fire, April 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,301 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 79 ha Gambella Wild Life Reserve fire, 29 March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 22,025 ha in total · 21 days
  21. 4,486 ha Abobo fire, 24 February 2021 2.0% of the municipality · 6,637 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 4 ha Gidami fire, January 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 6,561 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 2,156 ha Itang fire, November 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,142 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 254 ha Gambella Wild Life Reserve fire, 23 March 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 3,545 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 3,055 ha Itang fire, February 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,038 ha in total · 7 days
  26. 1,322 ha Itang fire, December 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,048 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 8 ha Gambella Wild Life Reserve fire, January 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 4,031 ha in total · 6 days
  28. 97 ha Gidami fire, 6 January 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 4,652 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 3,569 ha Itang fire, January 2018 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,549 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 393 ha Abobo fire, 26 January 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 5,880 ha in total · 8 days
  31. 2,437 ha Itang fire, January 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 7,473 ha in total · 15 days
  32. 310 ha Itang fire, 27 December 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,279 ha in total · 4 days
  33. 3,950 ha Itang fire, 16 December 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,928 ha in total · 8 days
  34. 3,445 ha Itang fire, 6 December 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,423 ha in total · 7 days
  35. 2,537 ha Anfilo fire, December 2016 1.2% of the municipality · 6,282 ha in total · 4 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).