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Wildfires in Mawokota

Mawokota, Uganda, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 13,333 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.5% 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. Wed 4 Very low 26° · 59 % · 37 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 26° · 65 % · 26 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 26° · 66 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 27° · 64 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 26° · 72 % · 25 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 26° · 69 % · 27 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 26° · 76 % · 34 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 25° · 93 % · 29 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 Mawokota: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

13,333
hectares burned
8.5 %
of its area
7
fires
1,570
km²

How many times has Mawokota burned?

Mawokota has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mawokota fire, August 2026, with 3,563 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 13,333 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,767 hectares, 3.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
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  4.   19
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  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 3× 26
7
fires
4
years with fire
13,333
cumulative ha
5,767
distinct ha

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 Mawokota

  1. 3,563 ha Mawokota fire, August 2026 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 6,492 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 1,648 ha Mawokota fire, June 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,637 ha in total · 24 days
  3. 1,529 ha Mawokota fire, January 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,769 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 2,650 ha Mawokota fire, 19 February 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,611 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 588 ha Mawokota fire, 17 February 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,848 ha in total · 19 days
  6. 1,642 ha Mawokota fire, September 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,631 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 1,713 ha Mawokota fire, July 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,702 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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