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Wildfires in Buruuli

Buruuli, Uganda, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 5,914 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.0% 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 29° · 51 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 65 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 59 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 62 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 70 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 76 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 68 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 61 % · 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

5,914
hectares burned
3.0 %
of its area
8
fires
1,965
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Buruuli

  1. 66 ha Buliisa fire, 31 January 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,097 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 177 ha Buliisa fire, February 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 2,102 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 583 ha Buliisa fire, 1 February 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 2,678 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 1,198 ha Buruuli fire, March 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,190 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 442 ha Buliisa fire, 30 January 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 2,703 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 433 ha Buruuli fire, 16 January 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,073 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 2,788 ha Buruuli fire, 16 January 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,768 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 229 ha Kibanda fire, 9 January 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,354 ha in total · 4 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).