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Wildfires in Sherkole

Sherkole, Ethiopia, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 26,465 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 41).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 2 High 38° · 17 % · 27 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very high 39° · 14 % · 27 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very high 39° · 13 % · 28 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Extreme 39° · 8 % · 34 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Extreme 40° · 10 % · 43 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Extreme 39° · 12 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Extreme 38° · 16 % · 38 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very high 38° · 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

26,465
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
11
fires
2,085
km²

How many times has Sherkole burned?

Sherkole has burned 11 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. The most recent: Sherkole fire, February 2022, with 1,006 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 26,465 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 23,225 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
11
fires
7
years with fire
26,465
cumulative ha
23,225
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 Sherkole

  1. 154 ha Sirba Abay fire, October 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,006 ha Sherkole fire, February 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,103 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,153 ha Sherkole fire, December 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,139 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,808 ha Sherkole fire, 9 February 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,653 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 2,029 ha Sherkole fire, 6 February 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,016 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 2,308 ha Sherkole fire, January 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,294 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 4,334 ha Sherkole fire, January 2019 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 4,308 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 3,842 ha Sherkole fire, March 2018 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,817 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 2,877 ha Sherkole fire, January 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,859 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 2,491 ha Sherkole fire, March 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,474 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 2,502 ha Sherkole fire, February 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,486 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 1,115 ha Menge fire, 1 February 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 4,859 ha in total · 5 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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