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Wildfires in Usuk

Usuk, Uganda, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 23,884 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.7% 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. Fri 23 Moderate 35° · 25 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 33° · 41 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 34° · 34 % · 39 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 33° · 33 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 50 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 55 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 64 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 51 % · 22 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

23,884
hectares burned
9.7 %
of its area
22
fires
2,455
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Usuk

  1. 1,028 ha Usuk fire, September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,021 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 277 ha Pian fire, 16 September 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,217 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 665 ha Bokora fire, 27 August 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 1,578 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 0 ha Pian fire, 18 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,946 ha in total · 25 days
  5. 1,141 ha Usuk fire, June 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,247 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,471 ha Usuk fire, 15 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,462 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 948 ha Usuk fire, 1 January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,557 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 1,236 ha Usuk fire, December 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,228 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,105 ha Usuk fire, 19 November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,191 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 256 ha Bokora fire, 19 November 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 2,868 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 1,144 ha Usuk fire, 11 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,136 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 6,158 ha Usuk fire, 9 November 2025 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 9,281 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 943 ha Usuk fire, 9 November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,026 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 1,179 ha Usuk fire, January 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,171 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 21 ha Bokora fire, 10 December 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,155 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 1,044 ha Usuk fire, November 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,037 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 831 ha Usuk fire, January 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,145 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 228 ha Bokora fire, 30 December 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,480 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 1,154 ha Usuk fire, January 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,146 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 1,049 ha Usuk fire, 21 December 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,042 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 1,068 ha Usuk fire, 20 December 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,061 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 937 ha Usuk fire, November 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,561 ha in total · 4 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).