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Wildfires in Madi-Okollo

Madi-Okollo, Uganda, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 24,832 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% 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. Fri 23 Low 35° · 37 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 34° · 45 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 34° · 42 % · 29 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 35° · 38 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 52 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 59 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 53 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 52 % · 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

24,832
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
18
fires
2,055
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Madi-Okollo

  1. 1,205 ha Madi-Okollo fire, January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,197 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,310 ha Madi-Okollo fire, 4 December 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,301 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,036 ha Madi-Okollo fire, 1 December 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,022 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 1,268 ha Madi-Okollo fire, November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,259 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,140 ha Madi-Okollo fire, January 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,133 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,134 ha Madi-Okollo fire, 8 January 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,126 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1,249 ha Madi-Okollo fire, 6 January 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,241 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 1,034 ha Madi-Okollo fire, February 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,028 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 1,060 ha Madi-Okollo fire, 27 December 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,053 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 1,984 ha Madi-Okollo fire, 26 December 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,971 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 1,449 ha Madi-Okollo fire, 9 January 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,439 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 1,011 ha Madi-Okollo fire, 1 January 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,005 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,910 ha Madi-Okollo fire, 20 December 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,897 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 1,214 ha Madi-Okollo fire, 11 December 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,206 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 2,267 ha Madi-Okollo fire, 27 December 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,252 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 1,156 ha Madi-Okollo fire, 26 December 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,148 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 1,417 ha Madi-Okollo fire, 15 February 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,408 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 989 ha Madi-Okollo fire, 1 February 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,767 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).