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Wildfires in Soroti

Soroti, Uganda, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 954 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 30 Low 31° · 37 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 32 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Moderate 35° · 20 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 2 High 35° · 18 % · 41 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Moderate 36° · 20 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 4 High 36° · 16 % · 34 km/h
  7. Thu 5 High 36° · 15 % · 39 km/h
  8. Fri 6 High 36° · 19 % · 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

954
hectares burned
0.7 %
of its area
3
fires
1,272
km²

How many times has Soroti burned?

Soroti has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2025. The most recent: Usuk fire, 9 November 2025, with 91 hectares inside the municipality.

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  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
954
cumulative ha
9 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 Soroti

  1. 91 ha Usuk fire, 9 November 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 1,026 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 187 ha Bokora fire, 13 December 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 1,563 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 676 ha Soroti fire, January 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,019 ha in total · 8 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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