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Wildfires in Kitagwenda

Kitagwenda, Uganda, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 1,987 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Wed 4 Low 30° · 42 % · 19 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 46 % · 25 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Low 29° · 50 % · 34 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 27° · 65 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 28° · 55 % · 23 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 28° · 60 % · 22 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 27° · 66 % · 22 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 27° · 70 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Kitagwenda: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,987
hectares burned
2.9 %
of its area
2
fires
675
km²

How many times has Kitagwenda burned?

Kitagwenda has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2022. The most recent: Kitagwenda fire, June 2022, with 1,408 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,987
cumulative ha
20 Jun 2022
most recent

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 Kitagwenda

  1. 1,408 ha Kitagwenda fire, June 2022 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,411 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 578 ha Kitagwenda fire, July 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,373 ha in total · 9 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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