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Wildfires in Gatsibo

Gatsibo, Rwanda, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 29,394 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

Only fires of 1,000 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 Very low 27° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 28° · 44 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 26° · 57 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 54 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 63 % · 33 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 68 % · 38 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 59 % · 44 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

29,394
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
16
fires
1,594
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Gatsibo

  1. 1,653 ha Gatsibo fire, 25 August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,642 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,718 ha Gatsibo fire, 24 August 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,707 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,941 ha Nyagatare fire, July 2026 1.2% of the municipality · 4,551 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 4,002 ha Gatsibo fire, August 2022 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 6,574 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 267 ha Nyagatare fire, June 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 1,763 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,047 ha Gatsibo fire, July 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,753 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 1,028 ha Gatsibo fire, 18 June 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,021 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 2,479 ha Gatsibo fire, 4 June 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,463 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 1,988 ha Gatsibo fire, August 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,975 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 1,065 ha Gatsibo fire, July 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,058 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 5,489 ha Gatsibo fire, July 2017 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 5,500 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,024 ha Gatsibo fire, June 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,039 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 1,012 ha Gatsibo fire, August 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,008 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 2,258 ha Gatsibo fire, 23 July 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,397 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 1,350 ha Gatsibo fire, 1 July 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,341 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 1,074 ha Gatsibo fire, June 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,067 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 Data Rwanda (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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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