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Wildfires in Mwenge

Mwenge, Uganda, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 1,378 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.6% 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 23 Very low 28° · 52 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 26° · 70 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 27° · 72 % · 35 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 59 % · 47 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 74 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 75 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 82 % · 25 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 63 % · 28 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

1,378
hectares burned
0.6 %
of its area
3
fires
2,298
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Mwenge

  1. 35 ha Buyanja fire, February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,183 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,164 ha Mwenge fire, February 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,156 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 180 ha Buyanja fire, 3 February 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 4,509 ha in total · 16 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).