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Wildfires in Kayonza

Kayonza, Rwanda, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 38,684 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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° · 54 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 42 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 27° · 54 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 52 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 60 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 57 % · 35 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 55 % · 42 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 55 % · 41 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

38,684
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
20
fires
1,945
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kayonza

  1. 2,615 ha Kayonza fire, 29 June 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,597 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 2,727 ha Kayonza fire, 23 June 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,709 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,045 ha Kayonza fire, 23 June 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,038 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 6,759 ha Kayonza fire, June 2024 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 6,714 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,108 ha Kayonza fire, July 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,100 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,362 ha Kayonza fire, June 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,353 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 2,615 ha Gatsibo fire, August 2022 1.3% of the municipality · 6,574 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 2,802 ha Kayonza fire, June 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,784 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 2,001 ha Kayonza fire, 24 June 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,988 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 1,163 ha Kayonza fire, 24 June 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,155 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 2,454 ha Kayonza fire, 24 June 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,438 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 1,064 ha Kayonza fire, August 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,057 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 1,078 ha Kayonza fire, July 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,070 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 2,888 ha Kayonza fire, 12 August 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,869 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 1,314 ha Kayonza fire, 6 August 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,306 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 3,241 ha Kayonza fire, August 2018 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,220 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 1,091 ha Kayonza fire, July 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,084 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 49 ha Gatsibo fire, July 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 5,500 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 1,153 ha Kayonza fire, August 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,146 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 155 ha Gatsibo fire, 23 July 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,397 ha in total · 2 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).