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Wildfires in Surma

Surma, Ethiopia, has had 39 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 111,310 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 23% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 High 33° · 23 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 37 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 30° · 42 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 31° · 37 % · 44 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 68 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 56 % · 35 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 59 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 58 % · 33 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

111,310
hectares burned
23 %
of its area
39
fires
4,756
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Surma

  1. 5,681 ha Surma fire, October 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,641 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,845 ha Surma fire, 11 September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,826 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 2,997 ha Surma fire, 5 September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,978 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 2,791 ha Surma fire, 5 September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,772 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 5,089 ha Surma fire, August 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,053 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 3,382 ha Surma fire, 15 January 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,358 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 3,349 ha Surma fire, 11 January 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,326 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 2,700 ha Surma fire, 11 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,681 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 3,542 ha Surma fire, 8 January 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,517 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 2,318 ha Surma fire, 7 January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,302 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 2,105 ha Surma fire, 6 January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,091 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 4,487 ha Surma fire, November 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,459 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 25 ha Maji fire, February 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,322 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 3,784 ha Surma fire, 20 January 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,757 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 2,630 ha Surma fire, 5 January 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,612 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 2,232 ha Surma fire, February 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,217 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 1,766 ha Bero fire, February 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 2,350 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 2,173 ha Surma fire, January 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,159 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 2,280 ha Surma fire, December 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,264 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 2,703 ha Surma fire, February 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,760 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 2,452 ha Surma fire, 26 December 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,436 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 8,242 ha Surma fire, 26 December 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 8,250 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 1,533 ha Surma fire, April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,075 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 3,060 ha Surma fire, 4 February 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,039 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 2,279 ha Surma fire, 1 February 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,152 ha in total · 7 days
  26. 32 ha Bero fire, January 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,378 ha in total · 7 days
  27. 2,526 ha Surma fire, 23 January 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,508 ha in total · 10 days
  28. 4,074 ha Surma fire, 22 January 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,045 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 3,210 ha Surma fire, 15 January 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,187 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 2,162 ha Surma fire, 14 January 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,147 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 3,983 ha Surma fire, 10 January 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,956 ha in total · 7 days
  32. 2,387 ha Surma fire, 4 January 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,370 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 3,035 ha Surma fire, November 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,015 ha in total · 3 days
  34. 2,340 ha Surma fire, September 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,325 ha in total · 4 days
  35. 2,011 ha Surma fire, 13 March 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,164 ha in total · 3 days
  36. 998 ha Maji fire, March 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 3,349 ha in total · 6 days
  37. 3,158 ha Surma fire, 5 March 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,136 ha in total · 1 day
  38. 2,862 ha Bero fire, February 2016 0.6% of the municipality · 2,873 ha in total · 4 days
  39. 2,086 ha Surma fire, February 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,197 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).