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Wildfires in Jonam

Jonam, Uganda, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 2,788 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.7% 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 30° · 51 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 28° · 67 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 53 % · 47 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 59 % · 38 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 67 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 64 % · 35 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 61 % · 27 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

2,788
hectares burned
2.7 %
of its area
3
fires
1,028
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Jonam

  1. 167 ha Padyere fire, November 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 1,381 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,095 ha Jonam fire, January 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,088 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1,525 ha Jonam fire, December 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,515 ha in total · 6 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).