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Wildfires in Busongora

Busongora, Uganda, has had 26 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 47,793 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. Sat 24 Very low 21° · 43 % · 41 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 19° · 54 % · 41 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 39 % · 40 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 21° · 54 % · 43 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 53 % · 45 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 62 % · 41 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 59 % · 40 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 58 % · 44 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

47,793
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
26
fires
2,221
km²

How many times has Busongora burned?

Busongora has burned 26 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Busongora fire, August 2026, with 1,109 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 47,793 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 25,873 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11. 5× 26
26
fires
10
years with fire
47,793
cumulative ha
25,873
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 Busongora

  1. 1,109 ha Busongora fire, August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,102 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,168 ha Busongora fire, February 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,160 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1,101 ha Busongora fire, 21 January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,094 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 2,470 ha Busongora fire, 11 January 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,454 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 1,439 ha Busongora fire, 9 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,429 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 2,220 ha Busongora fire, 1 July 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,205 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 1,044 ha Busongora fire, 1 July 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,037 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,325 ha Busongora fire, June 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,316 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,090 ha Busongora fire, 21 July 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,083 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 5,530 ha Busongora fire, 19 July 2023 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 5,493 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 1,095 ha Busongora fire, March 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,087 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 1,377 ha Busongora fire, January 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,368 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 4,556 ha Busongora fire, July 2022 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,525 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 12 ha Kitagwenda fire, June 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,411 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 1,805 ha Busongora fire, February 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,793 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 1,108 ha Busongora fire, 29 July 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,100 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 1,322 ha Busongora fire, 21 July 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,313 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 1,628 ha Busongora fire, August 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,617 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 1,162 ha Busongora fire, January 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,154 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 1,135 ha Busongora fire, July 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,128 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 5,907 ha Busongora fire, 12 January 2017 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 5,981 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 1,091 ha Busongora fire, 2 January 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,084 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 2,424 ha Busongora fire, July 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,407 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 1,199 ha Busongora fire, March 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,191 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 1,529 ha Busongora fire, 17 February 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,519 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 1,947 ha Busongora fire, 14 February 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,934 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).

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