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Wildfires in Buwekula

Buwekula, Uganda, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 2,796 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.0% 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 27° · 64 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 24° · 85 % · 46 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 26° · 73 % · 42 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 66 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 65 % · 20 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 75 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 80 % · 25 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 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

2,796
hectares burned
1.0 %
of its area
3
fires
2,806
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Buwekula

  1. 602 ha Lwemiyaga fire, July 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 1,403 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,128 ha Buwekula fire, 17 July 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,120 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,065 ha Buwekula fire, 17 July 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,058 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).