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Wildfires in Nakaseke

Nakaseke, Uganda, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 997 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.3% 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. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 54 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 40 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 50 % · 27 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Low 30° · 44 % · 24 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 50 % · 32 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 55 % · 34 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 29° · 51 % · 42 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 30° · 45 % · 46 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

997
hectares burned
0.3 %
of its area
2
fires
3,538
km²

How many times has Nakaseke burned?

Nakaseke has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2018. The most recent: Kiboga fire, January 2018, with 46 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
997
cumulative ha
6 Jan 2018
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 Nakaseke

  1. 46 ha Kiboga fire, January 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,068 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 950 ha Kiboga fire, January 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 1,418 ha in total · 17 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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