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Wildfires in Nyagatare

Nyagatare, Rwanda, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 15,528 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 54 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 25° · 63 % · 30 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 55 % · 39 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 55 % · 24 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 60 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 24° · 76 % · 32 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

15,528
hectares burned
8.0 %
of its area
11
fires
1,931
km²

How many times has Nyagatare burned?

Nyagatare has burned 11 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Nyagatare fire, July 2026, with 2,641 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 15,528 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,228 hectares, 4.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
11
fires
8
years with fire
15,528
cumulative ha
9,228
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,000 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.

Fires that entered Nyagatare

  1. 2,641 ha Nyagatare fire, July 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,551 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,768 ha Nyagatare fire, June 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,757 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,207 ha Nyagatare fire, July 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,199 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,495 ha Nyagatare fire, July 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,485 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,507 ha Nyagatare fire, June 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,763 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 716 ha Gatsibo fire, July 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 1,753 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 1,976 ha Nyagatare fire, August 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,963 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,054 ha Nyagatare fire, July 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,047 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 3,140 ha Nyagatare fire, July 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,303 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 22 ha Gatsibo fire, June 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,039 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 2 ha Gatsibo fire, August 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,008 ha in total · 1 day

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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