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Wildfires in Chekwii

Chekwii, Uganda, has had 32 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 53,534 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 24% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 Moderate 34° · 27 % · 42 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 34° · 35 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 35° · 30 % · 40 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 34° · 31 % · 29 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 53 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 59 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 72 % · 39 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 45 % · 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

53,534
hectares burned
24 %
of its area
32
fires
2,262
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Chekwii

  1. 577 ha Chekwii fire, October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,043 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,111 ha Chekwii fire, September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,103 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1,031 ha Bulambuli fire, August 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 2,563 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 1,091 ha Pian fire, 18 August 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 3,946 ha in total · 25 days
  5. 1,107 ha Chekwii fire, August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,100 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,166 ha Chekwii fire, 23 July 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,159 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 1,230 ha Chekwii fire, 3 July 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,222 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 1,376 ha Chekwii fire, 2 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,367 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 6,830 ha Chekwii fire, January 2026 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 6,871 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 1,559 ha Chekwii fire, 9 December 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,549 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 1,283 ha Chekwii fire, 5 December 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,275 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 2,516 ha Chekwii fire, 3 December 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,548 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 1,768 ha Chekwii fire, 24 November 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,757 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 1,303 ha Chekwii fire, 22 November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,295 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 639 ha Pian fire, 11 November 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 3,845 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 1,050 ha Chekwii fire, 9 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,043 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 10,111 ha Chekwii fire, 4 November 2025 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 12,725 ha in total · 27 days
  18. 1,129 ha Chekwii fire, February 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,121 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 1,167 ha Chekwii fire, December 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,159 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 1,102 ha Chekwii fire, December 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,100 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 1,881 ha Chekwii fire, December 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,868 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 1,328 ha Chekwii fire, November 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,319 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 653 ha Chekwii fire, October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,181 ha in total · 1 day
  24. 1,085 ha Chekwii fire, 15 February 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,078 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 1,105 ha Chekwii fire, 14 February 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,098 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 1,324 ha Chekwii fire, December 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,316 ha in total · 2 days
  27. 1,049 ha Chekwii fire, December 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,042 ha in total · 5 days
  28. 128 ha Pian fire, October 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 1,114 ha in total · 1 day
  29. 2,046 ha Chekwii fire, 19 December 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,032 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 1,352 ha Chekwii fire, 9 December 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,344 ha in total · 4 days
  31. 1,187 ha Chekwii fire, November 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,179 ha in total · 4 days
  32. 1,248 ha Chekwii fire, October 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,240 ha in total · 2 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).