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Wildfires in Maruzi

Maruzi, Uganda, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 5,129 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Sat 24 Very low 28° · 76 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 27° · 61 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 51 % · 31 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 58 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 63 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 61 % · 37 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 61 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 46 % · 31 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

5,129
hectares burned
2.7 %
of its area
4
fires
1,900
km²

How many times has Maruzi burned?

Maruzi has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2022. The most recent: Kibanda fire, January 2022, with 95 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
2
years with fire
5,129
cumulative ha
12 Jan 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 Maruzi

  1. 95 ha Kibanda fire, January 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,160 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 2,599 ha Maruzi fire, 19 December 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,582 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 1,366 ha Maruzi fire, 16 December 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,357 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 1,069 ha Maruzi fire, February 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,062 ha in total · 6 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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