Skip to content
worldfires
UG · Uganda · Western Region

Wildfires in Kinkiizi

Kinkiizi, Uganda, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 12,762 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% 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 26° · 70 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 26° · 74 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 26° · 68 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 75 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 77 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 74 % · 24 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 76 % · 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

12,762
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
9
fires
1,178
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kinkiizi

  1. 2,185 ha Kinkiizi fire, September 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,189 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 378 ha Bujumbura fire, 25 January 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 1,053 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,149 ha Kinkiizi fire, 23 January 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,142 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,006 ha Kinkiizi fire, 18 January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,000 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,121 ha Kinkiizi fire, July 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,113 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,521 ha Kinkiizi fire, 28 June 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,607 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 2,500 ha Kinkiizi fire, 25 June 2020 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,547 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 1,064 ha Kinkiizi fire, 3 June 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,123 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 1,838 ha Kinkiizi fire, February 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,825 ha in total · 3 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).