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Wildfires in Kween

Kween, Uganda, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 1,506 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 Moderate 34° · 25 % · 42 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 33° · 35 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 34° · 26 % · 44 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 34° · 28 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 48 % · 44 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 51 % · 44 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 55 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 38 % · 40 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

1,506
hectares burned
1.8 %
of its area
4
fires
849
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Kween

  1. 49 ha Chekwii fire, 3 December 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 2,548 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,237 ha Kween fire, February 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,389 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 6 ha Chekwii fire, December 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,100 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 214 ha Bulambuli fire, January 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 1,147 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).