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Wildfires in Kalungu

Kalungu, Uganda, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 11,378 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% 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. Tue 3 Very low 27° · 57 % · 31 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 27° · 62 % · 30 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 27° · 69 % · 25 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 28° · 65 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 27° · 66 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 27° · 61 % · 27 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 26° · 68 % · 22 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 28° · 61 % · 22 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

11,378
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
10
fires
790
km²

How many times has Kalungu burned?

Kalungu has burned 10 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Bukomansimbi fire, 27 August 2026, with 846 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 11,378 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,986 hectares, 7.6 % 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. 5× 26
10
fires
4
years with fire
11,378
cumulative ha
5,986
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 Kalungu

  1. 846 ha Bukomansimbi fire, 27 August 2026 1.1% of the municipality · 3,252 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,777 ha Kalungu fire, August 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,796 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 2,202 ha Mawokota fire, August 2026 2.8% of the municipality · 6,492 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 657 ha Kalungu fire, June 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,358 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 253 ha Mawokota fire, January 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 1,769 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 847 ha Kalungu fire, December 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,104 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 1,593 ha Mawokota fire, 17 February 2025 2.0% of the municipality · 2,848 ha in total · 19 days
  8. 1,002 ha Kalungu fire, June 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,734 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 1,236 ha Kalungu fire, August 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,554 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 966 ha Kalungu fire, July 2023 where it started 1.2% 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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