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Wildfires in Mawogola

Mawogola, Uganda, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2026: 583 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.4% 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 13 Very low 25° · 62 % · 37 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 26° · 54 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 25° · 71 % · 35 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 26° · 70 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 26° · 72 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 25° · 72 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 26° · 74 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 26° · 67 % · 34 km/h
  9. Sat 21 Very low 26° · 71 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Mawogola: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

583
hectares burned
0.4 %
of its area
2
fires
1,530
km²

How many times has Mawogola burned?

Mawogola has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Bukomansimbi fire, 27 August 2026, with 430 hectares inside the municipality.

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  11. 2× 26
2
fires
1
years with fire
583
cumulative ha
27 Aug 2026
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 Mawogola

  1. 430 ha Bukomansimbi fire, 27 August 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 1,011 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 154 ha Bukomansimbi fire, 27 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,358 ha in total · 7 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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