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Wildfires in Padyere

Padyere, Uganda, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 2,238 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 24 Very low 28° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 27° · 66 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 59 % · 31 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 63 % · 27 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 60 % · 19 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 69 % · 35 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 69 % · 29 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 62 % · 32 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

2,238
hectares burned
2.3 %
of its area
2
fires
955
km²

How many times has Padyere burned?

Padyere has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2025. The most recent: Padyere fire, November 2025, with 1,222 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
2,238
cumulative ha
24 Nov 2025
most recent

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 Padyere

  1. 1,222 ha Padyere fire, November 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,381 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,016 ha Padyere fire, January 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,009 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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