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Wildfires in Sekoru

Sekoru, Ethiopia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 3,970 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.3% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 Low 26° · 38 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 25° · 39 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 25° · 44 % · 29 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 24° · 62 % · 31 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 23° · 67 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 44 % · 24 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 41 % · 22 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

3,970
hectares burned
4.3 %
of its area
4
fires
923
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Sekoru

  1. 32 ha Enemorina Eaner fire, January 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,020 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 316 ha Cheha fire, February 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 2,236 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 1,426 ha Sekoru fire, January 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,580 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 2,196 ha Cheha fire, January 2017 2.4% of the municipality · 3,746 ha in total · 10 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).