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Wildfires in Afmadow

Afmadow, Somalia, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2019: 1,173 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.1% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

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 Moderate 36° · 42 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 38° · 34 % · 42 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 37° · 34 % · 41 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 34° · 50 % · 29 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 33° · 55 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 33° · 53 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 56 % · 24 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 34° · 53 % · 24 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

1,173
hectares burned
0.1 %
of its area
1
fires
18,952
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Afmadow

  1. 1,173 ha Afmadow fire, January 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,166 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/Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), Frank Salet (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (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).