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Wildfires in Melekoza

Melekoza, Ethiopia, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 11,604 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.9% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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. Wed 4 Low 25° · 36 % · 27 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Low 26° · 32 % · 30 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Low 25° · 35 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Low 25° · 39 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 26° · 37 % · 32 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 25° · 51 % · 32 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 23° · 56 % · 24 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 24° · 51 % · 23 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

11,604
hectares burned
6.9 %
of its area
14
fires
1,674
km²

How many times has Melekoza burned?

Melekoza has burned 14 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Melekoza fire, January 2026, with 1,385 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 11,604 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,516 hectares, 6.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
14
fires
7
years with fire
11,604
cumulative ha
10,516
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 Melekoza

  1. 1,385 ha Melekoza fire, January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,088 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 29 ha Loma Bosa fire, January 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,146 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 8 ha Loma Bosa fire, December 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,035 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 214 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 1 December 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 2,593 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 42 ha Decha fire, 23 January 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 18,545 ha in total · 25 days
  6. 232 ha Loma Bosa fire, December 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 3,612 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 1,859 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 19 January 2019 1.1% of the municipality · 10,767 ha in total · 21 days
  8. 3,598 ha Melekoza fire, 5 January 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,592 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 1,054 ha Melekoza fire, 2 January 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 11,494 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 1,533 ha Esira fire, 2 January 2019 0.9% of the municipality · 9,463 ha in total · 18 days
  11. 1,245 ha Denibu Gofa fire, December 2018 0.7% of the municipality · 2,524 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 389 ha Loma Bosa fire, December 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 7,423 ha in total · 25 days
  13. 15 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 14 February 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 5,112 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 1 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 14 February 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,161 ha in total · 12 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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