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Wildfires in Mandura

Mandura, Ethiopia: 48 fires since 2016 burned 453,953 hectares inside its boundaries, 4.2 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: high (FWI 30).

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 13 High 32° · 25 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 14 High 31° · 35 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 15 High 32° · 29 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 16 High 33° · 28 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 17 High 34° · 24 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 18 High 34° · 22 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 19 High 35° · 21 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 20 High 34° · 23 % · 27 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 Mandura: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

453,953
hectares burned
4.2×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
48
fires
1,083
km²

How many times has Mandura burned?

Mandura has burned 48 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mandura fire, March 2026, with 1,487 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 11× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 4× 26
48
fires
11
years with fire
453,953
cumulative ha
10 Mar 2026
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 Mandura

  1. 1,487 ha Mandura fire, March 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,082 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 4,262 ha Mandura fire, 16 February 2026 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 4,235 ha in total · 27 days
  3. 49,581 ha Dangura fire, 10 February 2026 46% of the municipality · 90,725 ha in total · 39 days
  4. 748 ha Mandura fire, 6 February 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,902 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 1,017 ha Guangua fire, March 2025 0.9% of the municipality · 2,106 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 25,782 ha Dangura fire, 17 February 2025 24% of the municipality · 39,187 ha in total · 29 days
  7. 2,387 ha Mandura fire, February 2025 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,372 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 5 ha Bulen fire, 11 February 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 6,187 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 38,155 ha Mandura fire, 18 February 2024 where it started 35% of the municipality · 54,997 ha in total · 23 days
  10. 2,068 ha Mandura fire, 11 February 2024 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,054 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 8,461 ha Mandura fire, March 2023 where it started 7.8% of the municipality · 8,796 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 4,830 ha Bulen fire, 1 March 2023 4.5% of the municipality · 8,025 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 6,654 ha Mandura fire, February 2023 where it started 6.1% of the municipality · 9,046 ha in total · 20 days
  14. 114 ha Bulen fire, 8 February 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 6,778 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 2,228 ha Mandura fire, March 2022 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,215 ha in total · 11 days
  16. 30,099 ha Bulen fire, 25 January 2022 28% of the municipality · 90,427 ha in total · 61 days
  17. 2,377 ha Mandura fire, January 2022 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,363 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 146 ha Dibat fire, March 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 2,279 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 35,446 ha Mandura fire, March 2021 where it started 33% of the municipality · 42,944 ha in total · 22 days
  20. 4,909 ha Mandura fire, February 2021 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 4,877 ha in total · 16 days
  21. 1,412 ha Bulen fire, 2 February 2021 1.3% of the municipality · 8,987 ha in total · 11 days
  22. 333 ha Dibat fire, 19 March 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 3,940 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 4,867 ha Mandura fire, 18 February 2020 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 4,836 ha in total · 14 days
  24. 3,598 ha Mandura fire, 15 February 2020 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 3,574 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 42,986 ha Dangura fire, 22 January 2020 40% of the municipality · 123,477 ha in total · 66 days
  26. 745 ha Dibat fire, 13 March 2019 0.7% of the municipality · 3,238 ha in total · 2 days
  27. 6,136 ha Mandura fire, 8 March 2019 where it started 5.7% of the municipality · 6,098 ha in total · 10 days
  28. 2,054 ha Mandura fire, 4 March 2019 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,040 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 5,636 ha Mandura fire, 3 March 2019 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 5,654 ha in total · 4 days
  30. 14,174 ha Mandura fire, 3 March 2019 where it started 13% of the municipality · 14,961 ha in total · 6 days
  31. 2,236 ha Mandura fire, 2 March 2019 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,221 ha in total · 4 days
  32. 1,053 ha Bulen fire, February 2019 1.0% of the municipality · 10,720 ha in total · 7 days
  33. 1,934 ha Pawe Special fire, February 2019 1.8% of the municipality · 2,749 ha in total · 5 days
  34. 1,646 ha Mandura fire, February 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,108 ha in total · 11 days
  35. 3,014 ha Dangura fire, 12 February 2019 2.8% of the municipality · 6,621 ha in total · 6 days
  36. 308 ha Bulen fire, 16 January 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 13,586 ha in total · 12 days
  37. 4,068 ha Mandura fire, March 2018 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 4,042 ha in total · 13 days
  38. 43,644 ha Dangura fire, March 2018 40% of the municipality · 55,315 ha in total · 17 days
  39. 59 ha Bulen fire, 11 January 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 7,324 ha in total · 8 days
  40. 278 ha Dibat fire, 5 March 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 2,900 ha in total · 5 days
  41. 1,086 ha Mandura fire, 23 February 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,585 ha in total · 5 days
  42. 2,532 ha Mandura fire, 22 February 2017 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 33,850 ha in total · 10 days
  43. 4,835 ha Mandura fire, 22 February 2017 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 5,513 ha in total · 12 days
  44. 32,706 ha Dangura fire, 19 February 2017 30% of the municipality · 39,054 ha in total · 18 days
  45. 3,130 ha Mandura fire, 6 March 2016 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 3,112 ha in total · 9 days
  46. 4,550 ha Guangua fire, March 2016 4.2% of the municipality · 5,738 ha in total · 10 days
  47. 2,215 ha Mandura fire, 1 March 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,201 ha in total · 11 days
  48. 41,962 ha Dangura fire, 9 February 2016 39% of the municipality · 89,847 ha in total · 34 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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