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Wildfires in Wemberma

Wemberma, Ethiopia, has had 30 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 41,627 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 31% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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. Sat 24 Moderate 30° · 36 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 30° · 32 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 39 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 51 % · 34 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 49 % · 35 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 28° · 43 % · 35 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 29° · 35 % · 40 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 28° · 42 % · 28 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

41,627
hectares burned
31 %
of its area
30
fires
1,358
km²

How many times has Wemberma burned?

Wemberma has burned 30 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Wemberma fire, January 2026, with 2,072 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 41,627 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 28,517 hectares, 21 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 6× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 1× 26
30
fires
10
years with fire
41,627
cumulative ha
28,517
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 Wemberma

  1. 2,072 ha Wemberma fire, January 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,059 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 282 ha Yaso fire, December 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 5,420 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 83 ha Bure fire, November 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 3,268 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 4 ha Yaso fire, November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,805 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 2,159 ha Wemberma fire, January 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,196 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 206 ha Kiremu fire, January 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 3,531 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 319 ha Kiremu fire, 20 February 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 2,334 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 81 ha Kiremu fire, 15 February 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 2,124 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 135 ha Yaso fire, 19 January 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 2,919 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 6 ha Bure fire, 12 January 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,506 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 3,618 ha Wemberma fire, December 2021 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 3,659 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 37 ha Yaso fire, December 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,673 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 2,142 ha Wemberma fire, 29 January 2021 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,129 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 587 ha Yaso fire, 27 January 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 8,938 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 2,163 ha Wemberma fire, 26 January 2021 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,151 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 141 ha Kiremu fire, January 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 7,036 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 635 ha Bure fire, December 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 3,059 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 14 ha Yaso fire, 28 February 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 7,039 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 639 ha Yaso fire, 21 January 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 6,825 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 1,816 ha Yaso fire, 10 January 2020 1.3% of the municipality · 4,935 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 2,512 ha Wemberma fire, 28 January 2019 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,497 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 85 ha Amuru fire, 18 January 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 7,468 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 3,567 ha Wemberma fire, 1 January 2019 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 3,546 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 2 ha Bure fire, December 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,362 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 7 ha Kiremu fire, April 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,554 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 1,887 ha Kiremu fire, December 2017 1.4% of the municipality · 6,755 ha in total · 12 days
  27. 4,209 ha Wemberma fire, January 2017 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 4,201 ha in total · 5 days
  28. 1,972 ha Guangua fire, 4 December 2016 1.4% of the municipality · 2,298 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 228 ha Yaso fire, November 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 2,515 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 10,017 ha Wemberma fire, January 2016 where it started 7.4% of the municipality · 13,228 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).

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