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Wildfires in Butambala

Butambala, Uganda, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 3,323 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.8% 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. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 76 % · 25 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 71 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 24° · 75 % · 33 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 26° · 72 % · 24 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 27° · 70 % · 21 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 26° · 72 % · 32 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 25° · 74 % · 36 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 25° · 74 % · 30 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

3,323
hectares burned
7.8 %
of its area
7
fires
427
km²

How many times has Butambala burned?

Butambala has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mawokota fire, August 2026, with 770 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,323 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,322 hectares, 3.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 2× 26
7
fires
4
years with fire
3,323
cumulative ha
1,322
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 Butambala

  1. 770 ha Mawokota fire, August 2026 1.8% of the municipality · 6,492 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 710 ha Kalungu fire, June 2026 1.7% of the municipality · 1,358 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 264 ha Kalungu fire, December 2025 0.6% of the municipality · 1,104 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 686 ha Mawokota fire, 17 February 2025 1.6% of the municipality · 2,848 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 744 ha Kalungu fire, June 2024 1.7% of the municipality · 1,734 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 58 ha Kalungu fire, August 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,554 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 91 ha Kalungu fire, July 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 1,049 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).

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