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Wildfires in Bugahya

Bugahya, Uganda, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 4,829 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.7% 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 28° · 57 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 78 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 27° · 76 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 73 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 69 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 82 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 80 % · 21 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 80 % · 21 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

4,829
hectares burned
2.7 %
of its area
6
fires
1,775
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Bugahya

  1. 209 ha Buhaguzi fire, March 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 1,174 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,468 ha Bugahya fire, February 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,459 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 406 ha Buhaguzi fire, January 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 1,348 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,030 ha Bugahya fire, January 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,023 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 300 ha Buhaguzi fire, January 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 1,281 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,417 ha Bugahya fire, January 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,407 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).