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Wildfires in Omoro

Omoro, Uganda, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 11,190 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 31° · 44 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 45 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 39 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 39 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 49 % · 43 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 58 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 57 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 53 % · 34 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

11,190
hectares burned
9.5 %
of its area
10
fires
1,183
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Omoro

  1. 8 ha Aruu fire, 4 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,027 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,456 ha Omoro fire, January 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,446 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,132 ha Omoro fire, 10 January 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,473 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 2,410 ha Omoro fire, 5 January 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,394 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 22 ha Aswa fire, 3 January 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,049 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,567 ha Omoro fire, January 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,140 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,176 ha Omoro fire, 23 December 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,177 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 1,399 ha Omoro fire, 23 December 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,389 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 868 ha Aswa fire, 8 February 2016 0.7% of the municipality · 1,035 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 1,153 ha Omoro fire, February 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,146 ha in total · 7 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).