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Wildfires in Bunyaruguru

Bunyaruguru, Uganda, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 26,096 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% 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. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 66 % · 29 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 59 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 57 % · 19 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 70 % · 26 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 64 % · 28 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 27° · 70 % · 25 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 63 % · 25 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 58 % · 27 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

26,096
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
13
fires
1,184
km²

How many times has Bunyaruguru burned?

Bunyaruguru has burned 13 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Bunyaruguru fire, September 2026, with 1,072 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 26,096 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,210 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
13
fires
8
years with fire
26,096
cumulative ha
16,210
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 Bunyaruguru

  1. 1,072 ha Bunyaruguru fire, September 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 3,743 ha Bunyaruguru fire, 14 January 2026 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 3,718 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,284 ha Bunyaruguru fire, 12 January 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,275 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 3,895 ha Bunyaruguru fire, February 2025 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 3,869 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,290 ha Bunyaruguru fire, February 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,281 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,049 ha Bunyaruguru fire, July 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,042 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 3,314 ha Bunyaruguru fire, 30 July 2020 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 3,292 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 1,266 ha Bunyaruguru fire, 28 July 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,257 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 1,225 ha Bunyaruguru fire, March 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,217 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 2,318 ha Bunyaruguru fire, 15 January 2017 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,302 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 1,072 ha Bunyaruguru fire, 6 January 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 3,101 ha Bunyaruguru fire, 4 January 2017 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 3,081 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 1,466 ha Bunyaruguru fire, December 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,456 ha in total · 2 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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