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Wildfires in Kurmuk

Kurmuk, Ethiopia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,841 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.2% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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 30 Moderate 31° · 38 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Moderate 32° · 28 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Moderate 31° · 33 % · 37 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Moderate 33° · 25 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 3 High 34° · 20 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 4 High 35° · 9 % · 42 km/h
  7. Thu 5 High 35° · 12 % · 37 km/h
  8. Fri 6 High 36° · 12 % · 41 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

7,841
hectares burned
6.2 %
of its area
4
fires
1,265
km²

How many times has Kurmuk burned?

Kurmuk has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2021. The most recent: Kurmuk fire, December 2021, with 2,505 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
7,841
cumulative ha
4 Dec 2021
most recent

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 Kurmuk

  1. 2,505 ha Kurmuk fire, December 2021 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,488 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 2,342 ha Kurmuk fire, December 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,327 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 465 ha Assosa fire, December 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 2,247 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 2,528 ha Kurmuk fire, March 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,513 ha in total · 7 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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