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Wildfires in Buruli

Buruli, Uganda, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 2,871 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.8% 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. Fri 23 Very low 30° · 58 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 28° · 68 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 59 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 66 % · 45 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 59 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 64 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 79 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 63 % · 24 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

2,871
hectares burned
0.8 %
of its area
4
fires
3,525
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Buruli

  1. 95 ha Bbaale fire, September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,026 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 299 ha Bbaale fire, 29 January 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,593 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 262 ha Bbaale fire, 9 January 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 4,065 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 2,215 ha Buruli fire, January 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,201 ha in total · 7 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).