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Wildfires in Bukuto

Bukuto, Uganda, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 2,890 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.3% 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 27° · 71 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 26° · 73 % · 35 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 25° · 75 % · 32 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 79 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 65 % · 21 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 70 % · 21 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 75 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 77 % · 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

2,890
hectares burned
1.3 %
of its area
4
fires
2,286
km²

How many times has Bukuto burned?

Bukuto has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2026. The most recent: Bukuto fire, 28 August 2026, with 1,007 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
4
fires
2
years with fire
2,890
cumulative ha
28 Aug 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 Bukuto

  1. 1,007 ha Bukuto fire, 28 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,000 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,675 ha Bukuto fire, 25 August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,664 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 54 ha Kyotera fire, August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,526 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 154 ha Kyotera fire, January 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 3,202 ha in total · 20 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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