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Wildfires in Kamashi

Kamashi, Ethiopia: 36 fires since 2016 burned 145,846 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.0 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: high (FWI 23).

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 1 Moderate 34° · 27 % · 29 km/h
  2. Mon 2 High 34° · 22 % · 26 km/h
  3. Tue 3 High 35° · 19 % · 27 km/h
  4. Wed 4 High 36° · 17 % · 33 km/h
  5. Thu 5 High 36° · 17 % · 36 km/h
  6. Fri 6 High 36° · 14 % · 36 km/h
  7. Sat 7 High 37° · 14 % · 46 km/h
  8. Sun 8 High 36° · 16 % · 36 km/h
  9. Mon 9 High 36° · 19 % · 33 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

145,846
hectares burned
1.0×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
36
fires
1,453
km²

How many times has Kamashi burned?

Kamashi has burned 36 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kamashi fire, 19 February 2026, with 5,726 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 145,846 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 65,524 hectares, 45 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 7× 16
  2. 9× 17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 6× 26
36
fires
8
years with fire
145,846
cumulative ha
65,524
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 Kamashi

  1. 5,726 ha Kamashi fire, 19 February 2026 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 5,961 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 3,857 ha Kamashi fire, 9 February 2026 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 4,763 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 3,166 ha Kamashi fire, 9 February 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,145 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 2,173 ha Kamashi fire, 9 February 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,434 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 2,313 ha Kamashi fire, 7 February 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,299 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 2,441 ha Agalometi fire, 24 January 2026 1.7% of the municipality · 8,926 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 1,899 ha Kamashi fire, 19 February 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,156 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 1,491 ha Kamashi fire, 9 February 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,722 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 3,835 ha Kamashi fire, February 2022 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 3,810 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 6,741 ha Agalometi fire, 19 January 2022 4.6% of the municipality · 10,580 ha in total · 21 days
  11. 2,443 ha Kamashi fire, 8 February 2021 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,428 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 962 ha Kamashi fire, 3 February 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,186 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 4,441 ha Kamashi fire, 3 February 2021 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 4,592 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 25,187 ha Kamashi fire, January 2021 where it started 17% of the municipality · 28,239 ha in total · 30 days
  15. 3,197 ha Kamashi fire, 6 February 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,177 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 2,217 ha Kamashi fire, 1 February 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,724 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 2,120 ha Kamashi fire, March 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,106 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 5,612 ha Kamashi fire, February 2019 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 5,575 ha in total · 8 days
  19. 2,364 ha Kamashi fire, January 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,349 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 5,592 ha Yaso fire, 11 January 2019 3.8% of the municipality · 12,926 ha in total · 19 days
  21. 2,557 ha Kamashi fire, 5 March 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,540 ha in total · 1 day
  22. 2,025 ha Kamashi fire, 1 March 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,203 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 6,296 ha Kamashi fire, 23 February 2017 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 6,505 ha in total · 13 days
  24. 2,606 ha Kamashi fire, 1 February 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,590 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 1,943 ha Agalometi fire, 27 January 2017 1.3% of the municipality · 9,791 ha in total · 15 days
  26. 1,995 ha Kamashi fire, 26 January 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,429 ha in total · 8 days
  27. 15,926 ha Kamashi fire, 24 January 2017 where it started 11% of the municipality · 15,873 ha in total · 18 days
  28. 2,145 ha Kamashi fire, 10 January 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,131 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 2,281 ha Kamashi fire, 7 January 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,924 ha in total · 12 days
  30. 2,741 ha Kamashi fire, March 2016 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,723 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 5,793 ha Agalometi fire, 21 February 2016 4.0% of the municipality · 10,558 ha in total · 13 days
  32. 4 ha Bio Jiganifado fire, February 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,340 ha in total · 22 days
  33. 2,228 ha Kamashi fire, February 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,222 ha in total · 4 days
  34. 2,455 ha Bio Jiganifado fire, 25 January 2016 1.7% of the municipality · 2,644 ha in total · 9 days
  35. 3,422 ha Agalometi fire, 25 January 2016 2.4% of the municipality · 13,880 ha in total · 20 days
  36. 3,652 ha Kamashi fire, January 2016 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 4,486 ha in total · 8 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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