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Wildfires in Nyabushozi

Nyabushozi, Uganda, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 10,257 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 27° · 57 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 49 % · 31 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 27° · 58 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 27° · 57 % · 29 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 54 % · 29 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 51 % · 33 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 28° · 49 % · 45 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 27° · 61 % · 31 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

10,257
hectares burned
3.5 %
of its area
7
fires
2,890
km²

How many times has Nyabushozi burned?

Nyabushozi has burned 7 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Nyabushozi fire, 28 August 2026, with 1,088 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,257 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 8,678 hectares, 3.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
7
fires
6
years with fire
10,257
cumulative ha
8,678
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 Nyabushozi

  1. 1,088 ha Nyabushozi fire, 28 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,080 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,175 ha Nyabushozi fire, 14 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,167 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,114 ha Nyabushozi fire, July 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,107 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,981 ha Nyabushozi fire, July 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,968 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,158 ha Nyabushozi fire, July 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,151 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 2,105 ha Nyabushozi fire, July 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,091 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,636 ha Nyabushozi fire, August 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,625 ha in total · 2 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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