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Wildfires in Aswa

Aswa, Uganda, has had 50 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 64,562 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 35% 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 32° · 50 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 29° · 58 % · 32 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 39 % · 35 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 56 % · 43 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 49 % · 39 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 46 % · 32 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 46 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 32° · 36 % · 39 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

64,562
hectares burned
35 %
of its area
50
fires
1,870
km²

How many times has Aswa burned?

Aswa has burned 50 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Aswa fire, 17 January 2026, with 1,429 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 9× 16
  2. 16× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 12× 26
50
fires
9
years with fire
64,562
cumulative ha
17 Jan 2026
most recent

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 Aswa

  1. 1,429 ha Aswa fire, 17 January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,420 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,192 ha Aswa fire, 14 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,184 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,117 ha Aswa fire, 13 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,109 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,203 ha Aswa fire, 12 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,195 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,138 ha Aswa fire, 12 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,130 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,146 ha Aswa fire, 11 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,149 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,276 ha Aswa fire, 6 January 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,268 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 1,471 ha Aswa fire, 5 January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,462 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 2,666 ha Aswa fire, 4 January 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,648 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 1,296 ha Aswa fire, 4 January 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,288 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 2,017 ha Aswa fire, 4 January 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,004 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 2,344 ha Aswa fire, 3 January 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,329 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 2 ha Lamwo fire, 28 November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,117 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 1,185 ha Aswa fire, 10 January 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,256 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 1,059 ha Aswa fire, 8 January 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,052 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 1,847 ha Aswa fire, 4 January 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,834 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 1,659 ha Aswa fire, 3 January 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,648 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 1,431 ha Aswa fire, December 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,466 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 1,103 ha Aswa fire, January 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,096 ha in total · 9 days
  20. 0 ha Lamwo fire, 17 January 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,513 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 1,029 ha Aswa fire, 21 January 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,022 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 351 ha Omoro fire, 10 January 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 1,473 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 1,205 ha Aswa fire, 9 January 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,198 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 18 ha Kilak fire, 6 January 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,348 ha in total · 6 days
  25. 1,198 ha Aswa fire, December 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,190 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 1,979 ha Aswa fire, 20 December 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,989 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 1,443 ha Aswa fire, 19 December 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,433 ha in total · 5 days
  28. 1,293 ha Aswa fire, 13 December 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,284 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 59 ha Kilak fire, 11 December 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,217 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 1,043 ha Aswa fire, 16 January 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,037 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 1,077 ha Aswa fire, 5 January 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,070 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 1,231 ha Aswa fire, 5 January 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,244 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 1,035 ha Aswa fire, 4 January 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,029 ha in total · 3 days
  34. 1,349 ha Aswa fire, 4 January 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,340 ha in total · 7 days
  35. 1,397 ha Aswa fire, 3 January 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,388 ha in total · 5 days
  36. 1,034 ha Aswa fire, 3 January 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,049 ha in total · 5 days
  37. 588 ha Omoro fire, January 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 2,140 ha in total · 5 days
  38. 1,344 ha Aswa fire, 2 January 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,335 ha in total · 6 days
  39. 1,104 ha Aswa fire, 2 January 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,097 ha in total · 5 days
  40. 1,948 ha Aswa fire, 2 January 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,165 ha in total · 6 days
  41. 1,837 ha Aswa fire, 2 January 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,825 ha in total · 9 days
  42. 1,578 ha Aswa fire, 22 December 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,568 ha in total · 5 days
  43. 2,004 ha Aswa fire, 21 December 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,990 ha in total · 9 days
  44. 1,666 ha Aswa fire, 21 December 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,655 ha in total · 9 days
  45. 2,907 ha Aswa fire, 15 December 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 7,451 ha in total · 15 days
  46. 174 ha Aswa fire, 8 February 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,035 ha in total · 6 days
  47. 3,286 ha Aswa fire, 4 February 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,264 ha in total · 6 days
  48. 1,428 ha Aswa fire, 29 January 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,492 ha in total · 7 days
  49. 829 ha Aswa fire, 26 January 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,195 ha in total · 7 days
  50. 547 ha Kilak fire, 24 January 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 1,080 ha in total · 6 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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