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Wildfires in Aringa

Aringa, Uganda, has had 25 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 31,100 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% 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. Fri 23 Very low 31° · 51 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 28° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 49 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 67 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 63 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 55 % · 30 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

31,100
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
25
fires
2,142
km²

How many times has Aringa burned?

Aringa has burned 25 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Aringa fire, 23 January 2026, with 1,026 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 31,100 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 24,354 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 5× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 5× 26
25
fires
9
years with fire
31,100
cumulative ha
24,354
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.

Where it has burned most often in Uganda →

Fires that entered Aringa

  1. 1,026 ha Aringa fire, 23 January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,019 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,054 ha Aringa fire, 17 January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,047 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1,425 ha Aringa fire, 7 January 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,415 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 2,429 ha Aringa fire, 2 January 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,443 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,052 ha Aringa fire, 1 January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,044 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,231 ha Aringa fire, 14 December 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,890 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,426 ha Aringa fire, 6 December 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,417 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,515 ha Aringa fire, January 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,505 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 634 ha Obongi fire, 16 February 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 1,562 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 774 ha Aringa fire, February 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,124 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 1,065 ha Aringa fire, 28 February 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,058 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 1,281 ha Aringa fire, 7 February 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,272 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 1,043 ha Aringa fire, 11 February 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,036 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 2,064 ha Aringa fire, 10 February 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,050 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 1,067 ha Aringa fire, 23 January 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,060 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 1,012 ha Aringa fire, 18 January 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,005 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 29 ha Obongi fire, February 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,124 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 1,233 ha Aringa fire, 8 January 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,225 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 984 ha Aringa fire, 6 January 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,218 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 1,281 ha Aringa fire, 20 December 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,273 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 1,012 ha Aringa fire, 16 December 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,154 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 1,921 ha Aringa fire, 18 January 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,908 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 2,052 ha Aringa fire, 7 January 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,038 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 1,143 ha Aringa fire, 3 January 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,136 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 1,345 ha Aringa fire, February 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,336 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/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). 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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