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Wildfires in Bulambuli

Bulambuli, Uganda, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 6,861 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% 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 14° · 84 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 13° · 77 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 15° · 65 % · 34 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 14° · 75 % · 24 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 15° · 77 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 15° · 59 % · 39 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 47 % · 41 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 15° · 51 % · 34 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

6,861
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
4
fires
669
km²

How many times has Bulambuli burned?

Bulambuli has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Chekwii fire, October 2026, with 473 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,861 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,357 hectares, 8.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
4
fires
2
years with fire
6,861
cumulative ha
5,357
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 Bulambuli

  1. 473 ha Chekwii fire, October 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 1,043 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,550 ha Bulambuli fire, August 2026 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,563 ha in total · 19 days
  3. 3,897 ha Bulambuli fire, January 2026 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 3,871 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 941 ha Bulambuli fire, January 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,147 ha in total · 3 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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