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Wildfires in Menge

Menge, Ethiopia, has had 37 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 98,563 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 64% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

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 23 Moderate 32° · 29 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 33° · 23 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 31° · 32 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 32° · 26 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 38 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 32° · 28 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 33° · 15 % · 42 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 32° · 19 % · 35 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

98,563
hectares burned
64 %
of its area
37
fires
1,536
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Menge

  1. 2,558 ha Menge fire, March 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,750 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,809 ha Menge fire, 25 February 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,792 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,558 ha Menge fire, 14 February 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,542 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 2,068 ha Menge fire, February 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,055 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 2,871 ha Menge fire, 29 February 2024 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,853 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 3,007 ha Menge fire, 29 February 2024 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,253 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 527 ha Assosa fire, 13 February 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 2,417 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 2,047 ha Menge fire, 3 January 2022 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,034 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 2,106 ha Menge fire, 1 January 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,093 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 861 ha Sherkole fire, 9 February 2021 0.6% of the municipality · 2,653 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 7,463 ha Menge fire, 5 February 2021 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 7,417 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 377 ha Menge fire, 3 February 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,371 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 2,036 ha Menge fire, January 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,023 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 2,279 ha Menge fire, March 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,266 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 2,428 ha Menge fire, 28 February 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,413 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 2,158 ha Menge fire, 25 February 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,144 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 2,512 ha Menge fire, 25 February 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,497 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 6,059 ha Menge fire, 24 February 2020 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 6,024 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 3,485 ha Menge fire, 6 February 2020 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 3,464 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 2,167 ha Menge fire, January 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,153 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 80 ha Bilidigilu fire, March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 4,185 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 2,184 ha Menge fire, February 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,171 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 3,156 ha Menge fire, 17 January 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,135 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 2,468 ha Menge fire, 12 January 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,451 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 2,228 ha Menge fire, December 2018 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,214 ha in total · 6 days
  26. 2,196 ha Menge fire, 17 January 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,182 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 24 ha Menge fire, 6 January 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,074 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 2,064 ha Menge fire, 6 January 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,052 ha in total · 1 day
  29. 3,338 ha Menge fire, 6 January 2017 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,317 ha in total · 4 days
  30. 3,882 ha Menge fire, 5 January 2017 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 3,857 ha in total · 3 days
  31. 5,696 ha Menge fire, 5 January 2017 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 6,944 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 3,567 ha Menge fire, 15 February 2016 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 3,918 ha in total · 2 days
  33. 2,775 ha Menge fire, 14 February 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,757 ha in total · 3 days
  34. 3,774 ha Menge fire, 1 February 2016 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 4,859 ha in total · 4 days
  35. 4,092 ha Menge fire, 30 January 2016 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 4,251 ha in total · 3 days
  36. 4,622 ha Menge fire, 27 January 2016 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 4,594 ha in total · 5 days
  37. 42 ha Bilidigilu fire, January 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,121 ha in total · 3 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).