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Wildfires in Obongi

Obongi, Uganda, has had 27 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 32,236 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 42% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 61 % · 18 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 61 % · 21 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 53 % · 22 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 53 % · 30 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 53 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 33° · 41 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 33° · 33 % · 27 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

32,236
hectares burned
42 %
of its area
27
fires
775
km²

How many times has Obongi burned?

Obongi has burned 27 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Obongi fire, 23 February 2026, with 1,375 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 32,236 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 22,964 hectares, 30 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 6× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 5× 26
27
fires
9
years with fire
32,236
cumulative ha
22,964
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 Obongi

  1. 1,375 ha Obongi fire, 23 February 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,366 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,262 ha Obongi fire, 11 February 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,254 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,378 ha Obongi fire, 12 January 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,369 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1,011 ha Obongi fire, 5 January 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,005 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 2,525 ha Obongi fire, 1 January 2026 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 2,508 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 938 ha Obongi fire, 16 February 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,562 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,653 ha Obongi fire, 2 February 2023 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,642 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 357 ha Aringa fire, February 2022 0.5% of the municipality · 1,124 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 1,121 ha Obongi fire, 25 January 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,113 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 1,020 ha Obongi fire, 14 January 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,013 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 1,059 ha Obongi fire, 26 February 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,051 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 1,057 ha Obongi fire, 20 February 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,051 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 1,124 ha Obongi fire, January 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,116 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 1,102 ha Obongi fire, February 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,124 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 1,782 ha Obongi fire, 12 January 2019 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,771 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 1,050 ha Obongi fire, 11 January 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,043 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 1,166 ha Obongi fire, December 2018 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,159 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 1,488 ha Obongi fire, 30 December 2017 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,477 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 522 ha West Moyo fire, 29 December 2017 0.7% of the municipality · 1,309 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 1,516 ha Obongi fire, 29 December 2017 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,505 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 1,138 ha Obongi fire, 22 December 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,131 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 1,264 ha Obongi fire, December 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,256 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 796 ha West Moyo fire, 21 December 2016 1.0% of the municipality · 3,492 ha in total · 10 days
  24. 790 ha Madi-Okollo fire, 1 February 2016 1.0% of the municipality · 1,767 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 1,951 ha Obongi fire, 27 January 2016 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,938 ha in total · 6 days
  26. 714 ha Obongi fire, 27 January 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,206 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 1,078 ha Obongi fire, 1 January 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,071 ha in total · 3 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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