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Wildfires in Buhaguzi

Buhaguzi, Uganda, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 7,486 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.0% 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. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 62 % · 27 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 50 % · 33 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 47 % · 27 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 48 % · 27 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 44 % · 28 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 28° · 54 % · 40 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 28° · 60 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 28° · 78 % · 28 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

7,486
hectares burned
4.0 %
of its area
6
fires
1,892
km²

How many times has Buhaguzi burned?

Buhaguzi has burned 6 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Buhaguzi fire, March 2024, with 973 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,486 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,755 hectares, 3.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
5
years with fire
7,486
cumulative ha
5,755
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 Buhaguzi

  1. 973 ha Buhaguzi fire, March 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,174 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,108 ha Buhaguzi fire, February 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,094 ha in total · 23 days
  3. 1,340 ha Buhaguzi fire, 12 February 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,331 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 1,123 ha Buhaguzi fire, 12 February 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,116 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 952 ha Buhaguzi fire, January 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,348 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 990 ha Buhaguzi fire, January 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,281 ha in total · 4 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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