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Wildfires in Pian

Pian, Uganda, has had 54 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 69,623 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 38% 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. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 41 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 51 % · 39 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 32° · 36 % · 39 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 49 % · 27 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 42 % · 39 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 30° · 48 % · 34 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 31° · 35 % · 39 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 30° · 44 % · 39 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

69,623
hectares burned
38 %
of its area
54
fires
1,814
km²

How many times has Pian burned?

Pian has burned 54 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Pian fire, October 2026, with 1,025 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 7× 20
  6. 5× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 16× 25
  11. 12× 26
54
fires
11
years with fire
69,623
cumulative ha
4 Oct 2026
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 Pian

  1. 1,025 ha Pian fire, October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,019 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 948 ha Pian fire, 16 September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,217 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 1,484 ha Pian fire, 3 September 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,474 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 2,086 ha Pian fire, 25 August 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,503 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 1,449 ha Pian fire, 24 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,440 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,009 ha Pian fire, 23 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,002 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 2,881 ha Pian fire, 18 August 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,946 ha in total · 25 days
  8. 1,024 ha Pian fire, July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,017 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 1,295 ha Pian fire, June 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,536 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 87 ha Chekwii fire, January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 6,871 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 197 ha Matheniko fire, 4 January 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,295 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 619 ha Usuk fire, 1 January 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 1,557 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 1,061 ha Pian fire, December 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,120 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 1,524 ha Pian fire, 30 November 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,513 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 1,868 ha Pian fire, 26 November 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,855 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 1,484 ha Pian fire, 14 November 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,338 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 848 ha Pian fire, 12 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,385 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 140 ha Bokora fire, 12 November 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 1,140 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 3,230 ha Pian fire, 11 November 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,845 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 1,908 ha Pian fire, 11 November 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,278 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 1,133 ha Pian fire, 10 November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,167 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 1,285 ha Pian fire, 9 November 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,391 ha in total · 8 days
  23. 1,886 ha Pian fire, 9 November 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,746 ha in total · 16 days
  24. 3,253 ha Pian fire, 9 November 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,232 ha in total · 8 days
  25. 2,494 ha Pian fire, 7 November 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,436 ha in total · 8 days
  26. 34 ha Bokora fire, 7 November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 14,167 ha in total · 25 days
  27. 2,694 ha Chekwii fire, 4 November 2025 1.5% of the municipality · 12,725 ha in total · 27 days
  28. 1,087 ha Pian fire, 4 November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,080 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 534 ha Bokora fire, 17 December 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 1,071 ha in total · 2 days
  30. 1,126 ha Pian fire, 4 December 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,119 ha in total · 5 days
  31. 1,573 ha Pian fire, 3 December 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,562 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 1,336 ha Pian fire, 3 December 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,327 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 2,691 ha Pian fire, 1 December 2024 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,672 ha in total · 7 days
  34. 1,231 ha Pian fire, November 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,223 ha in total · 5 days
  35. 1,014 ha Pian fire, November 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,008 ha in total · 2 days
  36. 848 ha Pian fire, October 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,035 ha in total · 1 day
  37. 2,050 ha Pian fire, December 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,036 ha in total · 2 days
  38. 476 ha Bokora fire, 5 December 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 2,306 ha in total · 3 days
  39. 86 ha Matheniko fire, 1 December 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,315 ha in total · 2 days
  40. 1,422 ha Pian fire, 22 November 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,412 ha in total · 1 day
  41. 1,314 ha Pian fire, 14 November 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,305 ha in total · 2 days
  42. 1,796 ha Pian fire, November 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,784 ha in total · 4 days
  43. 0 ha Bokora fire, 15 November 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,698 ha in total · 8 days
  44. 2,232 ha Pian fire, October 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,747 ha in total · 6 days
  45. 534 ha Chekwii fire, October 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 1,181 ha in total · 1 day
  46. 141 ha Matheniko fire, 24 February 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,251 ha in total · 1 day
  47. 1,134 ha Pian fire, 9 January 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,126 ha in total · 1 day
  48. 1,383 ha Pian fire, 7 January 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,373 ha in total · 3 days
  49. 1,610 ha Pian fire, December 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,600 ha in total · 5 days
  50. 993 ha Pian fire, October 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,114 ha in total · 1 day
  51. 1,118 ha Pian fire, 19 December 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,111 ha in total · 4 days
  52. 1,551 ha Pian fire, 18 December 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,541 ha in total · 3 days
  53. 19 ha Bokora fire, 7 December 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,792 ha in total · 3 days
  54. 1,382 ha Pian fire, November 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,373 ha in total · 5 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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