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Wildfires in Selamgo

Selamgo, Ethiopia, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 38,834 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.4% 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. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 42 % · 29 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Low 34° · 36 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Moderate 36° · 27 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Moderate 37° · 23 % · 26 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Moderate 37° · 21 % · 25 km/h
  6. Tue 3 High 38° · 18 % · 28 km/h
  7. Wed 4 High 38° · 19 % · 23 km/h
  8. Thu 5 High 38° · 21 % · 26 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

38,834
hectares burned
8.4 %
of its area
18
fires
4,613
km²

How many times has Selamgo burned?

Selamgo has burned 18 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Selamgo fire, 27 August 2026, with 2,603 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 38,834 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 36,383 hectares, 7.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 4× 26
18
fires
7
years with fire
38,834
cumulative ha
36,383
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 Selamgo

  1. 2,603 ha Selamgo fire, 27 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,585 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 3,000 ha Selamgo fire, 26 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,981 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 3,849 ha Selamgo fire, 26 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,824 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 701 ha Melekoza fire, January 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,088 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 2,801 ha Selamgo fire, December 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,861 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 2,124 ha Selamgo fire, 24 February 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,111 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 981 ha Selamgo fire, 4 February 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,057 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 2,806 ha Selamgo fire, January 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,123 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 2,335 ha Selamgo fire, February 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,319 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 2,553 ha Selamgo fire, 26 January 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,600 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 2,692 ha Selamgo fire, 20 January 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,801 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 2,094 ha Ela (Konta) SP Woreda fire, 19 January 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 10,767 ha in total · 21 days
  13. 3,382 ha Selamgo fire, October 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,362 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 2,242 ha Selamgo fire, January 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,226 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 2,424 ha Selamgo fire, 26 December 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,407 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 66 ha Selamgo fire, 23 December 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,633 ha in total · 14 days
  17. 2,144 ha Selamgo fire, February 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,129 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 35 ha Decha fire, 3 February 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,201 ha in total · 9 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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