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Wildfires in Otuke

Otuke, Uganda, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 1,245 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.8% 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. Fri 23 Moderate 34° · 34 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 34° · 39 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 34° · 30 % · 41 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 34° · 32 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 53 % · 48 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 52 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 61 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 49 % · 29 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

1,245
hectares burned
0.8 %
of its area
3
fires
1,573
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Otuke

  1. 31 ha Agago fire, 1 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,026 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 990 ha Otuke fire, November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,181 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 223 ha Labwor fire, 18 December 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,732 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).