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Wildfires in Aruu

Aruu, Uganda, has had 45 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 49,339 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% 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 Low 32° · 46 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 48 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 34° · 36 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 34° · 36 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 57 % · 43 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 53 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 62 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 47 % · 29 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

49,339
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
45
fires
3,062
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Aruu

  1. 1,344 ha Aruu fire, 21 January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,335 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,803 ha Chua fire, 20 January 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 2,296 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,125 ha Aruu fire, 12 January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,118 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 11 ha Aswa fire, 11 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,149 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 1,034 ha Aruu fire, 8 January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,027 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 1,328 ha Aruu fire, 8 January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,319 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 1,443 ha Aruu fire, 7 January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,433 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 1,096 ha Aruu fire, 7 January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,089 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,034 ha Aruu fire, 7 January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,027 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 1,370 ha Aruu fire, 7 January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,361 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 1,007 ha Aruu fire, 7 January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,000 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,026 ha Aruu fire, 4 January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,027 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 120 ha Agago fire, 3 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,391 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 1,019 ha Aruu fire, 2 January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,012 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 1,410 ha Aruu fire, December 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,400 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 2,772 ha Aruu fire, November 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,962 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 194 ha Chua fire, 14 January 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 1,160 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 11 ha Lamwo fire, 18 December 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,011 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 1,081 ha Aruu fire, December 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,074 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 5 ha Aswa fire, December 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,466 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 811 ha Aruu fire, January 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,070 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 1,308 ha Aruu fire, 17 January 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,300 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 549 ha Aruu fire, 16 January 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,316 ha in total · 10 days
  24. 1,342 ha Aruu fire, 10 January 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,333 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 1,940 ha Aruu fire, 10 January 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,927 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 1,489 ha Aruu fire, 6 January 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,479 ha in total · 7 days
  27. 23 ha Aswa fire, 20 December 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,989 ha in total · 5 days
  28. 1,423 ha Aruu fire, 20 December 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,414 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 1,096 ha Aruu fire, 11 December 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,357 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 2,056 ha Aruu fire, 4 December 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,140 ha in total · 6 days
  31. 1,049 ha Aruu fire, 2 December 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,042 ha in total · 7 days
  32. 1,060 ha Aruu fire, 5 January 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,053 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 228 ha Aswa fire, 2 January 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,165 ha in total · 6 days
  34. 1,948 ha Aruu fire, 1 January 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,935 ha in total · 7 days
  35. 325 ha Chua fire, 23 December 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,792 ha in total · 6 days
  36. 9 ha Omoro fire, 23 December 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,177 ha in total · 5 days
  37. 1,058 ha Aruu fire, 22 December 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,051 ha in total · 3 days
  38. 1,330 ha Aruu fire, 22 December 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,321 ha in total · 2 days
  39. 1,895 ha Aruu fire, 20 December 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,883 ha in total · 9 days
  40. 3,382 ha Aruu fire, 19 December 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,359 ha in total · 10 days
  41. 993 ha Aruu fire, 19 December 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,249 ha in total · 6 days
  42. 1,255 ha Aruu fire, 2 December 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,247 ha in total · 5 days
  43. 0 ha Omoro fire, February 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,146 ha in total · 7 days
  44. 1,081 ha Aruu fire, February 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,074 ha in total · 7 days
  45. 1,454 ha Aruu fire, January 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,445 ha in total · 8 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).