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Wildfires in Sayo

Sayo, Ethiopia, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 14,956 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Mon 2 Very low 26° · 41 % · 25 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 26° · 41 % · 21 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Low 26° · 38 % · 24 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Low 28° · 29 % · 22 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Low 27° · 35 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Low 27° · 38 % · 32 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 26° · 47 % · 27 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 25° · 56 % · 24 km/h
  9. Tue 10 Very low 25° · 59 % · 30 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

14,956
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
13
fires
1,037
km²

How many times has Sayo burned?

Sayo has burned 13 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Sayo fire, February 2026, with 1,461 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,956 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 11,735 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
13
fires
6
years with fire
14,956
cumulative ha
11,735
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 Sayo

  1. 1,461 ha Sayo fire, February 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,231 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 664 ha Bure fire, December 2021 0.6% of the municipality · 5,441 ha in total · 19 days
  3. 145 ha Bure fire, January 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 2,627 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 201 ha Sayo fire, 17 January 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,266 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,579 ha Sayo fire, 10 January 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,076 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 2,617 ha Gambela Zuria fire, 5 January 2019 2.5% of the municipality · 4,445 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 32 ha Bure fire, 29 December 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,027 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 1,858 ha Bure fire, 9 December 2017 1.8% of the municipality · 5,208 ha in total · 19 days
  9. 962 ha Sayo fire, 29 December 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,725 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 453 ha Hawa Galan fire, 27 December 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 5,118 ha in total · 14 days
  11. 2,069 ha Sayo fire, 5 December 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,960 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 2,781 ha Sayo fire, 4 December 2016 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 3,629 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 136 ha Bure fire, 12 January 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,385 ha in total · 8 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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