Skip to content
worldfires
en
ET · Ethiopia · Tigray

Wildfires in Kafta Humera

Kafta Humera, Ethiopia, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 55,187 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 46).

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 Extreme 37° · 19 % · 36 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very high 36° · 20 % · 45 km/h
  3. Tue 27 High 36° · 20 % · 36 km/h
  4. Wed 28 High 33° · 31 % · 27 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very high 36° · 18 % · 34 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very high 37° · 17 % · 39 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very high 37° · 16 % · 38 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very high 38° · 12 % · 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

55,187
hectares burned
8.9 %
of its area
20
fires
6,195
km²

How many times has Kafta Humera burned?

Kafta Humera has burned 20 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kafta Humera fire, 15 October 2026, with 2,384 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 55,187 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 46,363 hectares, 7.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 6× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 2× 26
20
fires
8
years with fire
55,187
cumulative ha
46,363
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 Kafta Humera

  1. 2,384 ha Kafta Humera fire, 15 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,368 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 3,178 ha Kafta Humera fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,166 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 2,523 ha Kafta Humera fire, 25 October 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,505 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 2,844 ha Kafta Humera fire, 22 October 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,823 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 2,493 ha Kafta Humera fire, 22 October 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,475 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 1,093 ha Kafta Humera fire, 26 November 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,627 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 4,011 ha Kafta Humera fire, 16 November 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,002 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 2,036 ha Kafta Humera fire, January 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,025 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 2,267 ha Kafta Humera fire, November 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,252 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 8,296 ha Kafta Humera fire, December 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 8,430 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 2,838 ha Kafta Humera fire, October 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,818 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 2,465 ha Kafta Humera fire, January 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,448 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 2,196 ha Kafta Humera fire, April 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,181 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 57 ha Welkait fire, December 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,301 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 2,756 ha Kafta Humera fire, 23 December 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,092 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 3,526 ha Kafta Humera fire, 12 December 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,504 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 2,339 ha Kafta Humera fire, 10 December 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,326 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 2,773 ha Kafta Humera fire, November 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,768 ha in total · 9 days
  19. 2,067 ha Kafta Humera fire, March 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,055 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 3,044 ha Kafta Humera fire, November 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,024 ha in total · 5 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).

Tell me what burns here

New fires in this area by RSS: paste the link into your reader, no email needed.

Follow by RSS