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Wildfires in Ntoroko

Ntoroko, Uganda, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,337 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.8% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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 30 Very low 32° · 47 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Low 34° · 38 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 33° · 56 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Low 35° · 41 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Low 36° · 43 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Moderate 36° · 35 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Low 35° · 38 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Low 36° · 34 % · 36 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

7,337
hectares burned
7.8 %
of its area
9
fires
936
km²

How many times has Ntoroko burned?

Ntoroko has burned 9 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Ntoroko fire, August 2026, with 1,817 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,337 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,595 hectares, 4.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 4× 26
9
fires
5
years with fire
7,337
cumulative ha
4,595
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 Ntoroko

  1. 1,817 ha Ntoroko fire, August 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,050 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,114 ha Ntoroko fire, July 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,106 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 58 ha Burahya fire, January 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,574 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 854 ha Ntoroko fire, January 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,467 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 311 ha Ntoroko fire, January 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,700 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,386 ha Ntoroko fire, December 2024 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,377 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 407 ha Burahya fire, February 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 1,496 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 1,211 ha Ntoroko fire, December 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,383 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 179 ha Burahya fire, 28 January 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 1,529 ha in total · 8 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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