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Wildfires in Maji

Maji, Ethiopia, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 48,470 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 33 % · 40 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 31 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Moderate 35° · 26 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Moderate 35° · 23 % · 28 km/h
  5. Mon 2 High 36° · 21 % · 30 km/h
  6. Tue 3 High 36° · 21 % · 31 km/h
  7. Wed 4 High 36° · 20 % · 32 km/h
  8. Thu 5 High 37° · 19 % · 32 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

48,470
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
18
fires
4,550
km²

How many times has Maji burned?

Maji has burned 18 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Maji fire, August 2026, with 2,227 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 48,470 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 37,770 hectares, 8.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
18
fires
8
years with fire
48,470
cumulative ha
37,770
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 Maji

  1. 2,227 ha Maji fire, August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,213 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 2,213 ha Maji fire, July 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,199 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 2,312 ha Maji fire, February 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,322 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 2,367 ha Maji fire, February 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,352 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 2,038 ha Maji fire, February 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,025 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 3,777 ha Maji fire, 30 January 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,749 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 2,132 ha Maji fire, 21 January 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,118 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 2,171 ha Maji fire, May 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,157 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 3,935 ha Maji fire, February 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,908 ha in total · 15 days
  10. 1,903 ha Surma fire, 1 February 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 4,152 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 2,502 ha Maji fire, 23 January 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,490 ha in total · 16 days
  12. 2,199 ha Maji fire, 22 January 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,183 ha in total · 10 days
  13. 3,362 ha Maji fire, December 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,340 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 2,988 ha Maji fire, January 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,121 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 2,458 ha Maji fire, August 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,441 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 2,375 ha Maji fire, March 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,349 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 2,651 ha Maji fire, 27 February 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,634 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 4,860 ha Maji fire, 14 February 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,828 ha in total · 11 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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