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Wildfires in Ruhaama

Ruhaama, Uganda, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2016: 1,128 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.2% 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. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 53 % · 37 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 58 % · 32 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 59 % · 39 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 63 % · 36 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 26° · 62 % · 36 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 27° · 68 % · 31 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 27° · 53 % · 28 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

1,128
hectares burned
1.2 %
of its area
1
fires
928
km²

How many times has Ruhaama burned?

Ruhaama has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2016. The most recent: Ruhaama fire, August 2016, with 1,128 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
1,128
cumulative ha
17 Aug 2016
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 Ruhaama

  1. 1,128 ha Ruhaama fire, August 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,121 ha in total · 6 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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