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Wildfires in Burahya

Burahya, Uganda, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 18,064 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% 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 24° · 71 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 23° · 72 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 81 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 73 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 87 % · 23 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 72 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 24° · 68 % · 26 km/h
  9. Sun 1 Very low 24° · 72 % · 25 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

18,064
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
16
fires
1,593
km²

How many times has Burahya burned?

Burahya has burned 16 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Ntoroko fire, August 2026, with 246 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 18,064 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,724 hectares, 8.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
16
fires
6
years with fire
18,064
cumulative ha
12,724
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 Burahya

  1. 246 ha Ntoroko fire, August 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,050 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,527 ha Burahya fire, January 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,574 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 623 ha Ntoroko fire, January 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 1,467 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,401 ha Burahya fire, January 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,700 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,061 ha Burahya fire, December 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,054 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,186 ha Burahya fire, January 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,178 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 667 ha Kitagwenda fire, July 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 1,373 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,100 ha Burahya fire, February 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,496 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,226 ha Burahya fire, December 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,218 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 1,021 ha Burahya fire, 5 January 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,014 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 1,757 ha Burahya fire, 5 January 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,745 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,277 ha Burahya fire, December 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,268 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 181 ha Ntoroko fire, December 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,383 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 1,140 ha Burahya fire, February 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,132 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 1,360 ha Burahya fire, 30 January 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,529 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 2,293 ha Burahya fire, 28 January 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,277 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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