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Wildfires in Lare

Lare, Ethiopia, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 24,088 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 36% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 25).

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. Sat 24 High 39° · 22 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 39° · 25 % · 42 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 38° · 34 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 33° · 52 % · 37 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 34° · 48 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 35° · 43 % · 25 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 35° · 40 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 36° · 42 % · 31 km/h
  9. Sun 1 Low 34° · 44 % · 40 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

24,088
hectares burned
36 %
of its area
14
fires
673
km²

How many times has Lare burned?

Lare has burned 14 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Gambella Wild Life Reserve fire, June 2026, with 719 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 24,088 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 22,028 hectares, 33 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
14
fires
7
years with fire
24,088
cumulative ha
22,028
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 Lare

  1. 719 ha Gambella Wild Life Reserve fire, June 2026 1.1% of the municipality · 5,764 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,903 ha Lare fire, 9 February 2026 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 2,135 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 14,095 ha Lare fire, 3 February 2026 where it started 21% of the municipality · 15,144 ha in total · 40 days
  4. 2,661 ha Lare fire, January 2026 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 3,642 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 16 ha Gambella Wild Life Reserve fire, 7 March 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,842 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 763 ha Lare fire, February 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,171 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 113 ha Lare fire, April 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,381 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 600 ha Itang fire, April 2021 0.9% of the municipality · 2,301 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 197 ha Jikawo fire, 20 February 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 4,199 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 195 ha Gambella Wild Life Reserve fire, 26 March 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 4,534 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 713 ha Lare fire, February 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,279 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 216 ha Gambella Wild Life Reserve fire, January 2018 0.3% of the municipality · 4,031 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 1,448 ha Lare fire, January 2017 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 8,630 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 449 ha Itang fire, January 2017 0.7% of the municipality · 7,473 ha in total · 15 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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