Wildfires in Jie

Name: Jie
Address: UG

Jie, Uganda, has had 93 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 121,145 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 32% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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

Fri 23 High 35° · 22 % · 32 km/h
Sat 24 Moderate 34° · 23 % · 34 km/h
Sun 25 Moderate 33° · 34 % · 45 km/h
Mon 26 High 34° · 28 % · 43 km/h
Tue 27 Very low 29° · 49 % · 43 km/h
Wed 28 Very low 30° · 46 % · 45 km/h
Thu 29 Very low 29° · 50 % · 39 km/h
Fri 30 Low 31° · 42 % · 37 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.

Since 2016

121,145
hectares burned: 32 %
of its area: 93
fires: 3,808
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Jie

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).

Fire danger, today and the coming days

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

Hectares per year

Fires that entered Jie

Where this data comes from