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Wildfires in Kucha

Kucha, Ethiopia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 2,110 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.4% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 Low 31° · 30 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 31° · 33 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 37 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 47 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 82 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 56 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 41 % · 18 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 37 % · 15 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

2,110
hectares burned
1.4 %
of its area
2
fires
1,465
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kucha

  1. 31 ha Zala fire, January 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,740 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,080 ha Kucha fire, January 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,066 ha in total · 3 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).