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Wildfires in Leka Dulecha

Leka Dulecha, Ethiopia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 3,425 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 14 Very low 22° · 55 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 23° · 50 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 24° · 46 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 24° · 50 % · 17 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 24° · 54 % · 17 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 24° · 49 % · 20 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 24° · 53 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 25° · 42 % · 29 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Leka Dulecha: hourly forecast Today, 24 µg/m³ of PM2.5 (×1.6 the WHO guideline)

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

3,425
hectares burned
5.7 %
of its area
4
fires
605
km²

How many times has Leka Dulecha burned?

Leka Dulecha has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Leka Dulecha fire, February 2026, with 1,575 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,425 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,736 hectares, 2.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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4
fires
4
years with fire
3,425
cumulative ha
1,736
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 Leka Dulecha

  1. 1,575 ha Leka Dulecha fire, February 2026 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 6,454 ha in total · 21 days
  2. 445 ha Leka Dulecha fire, February 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,213 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 604 ha Jimma Arjo fire, February 2022 1.0% of the municipality · 3,238 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 801 ha Leka Dulecha fire, February 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,884 ha in total · 9 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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