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Wildfires in West Moyo

West Moyo, Uganda, has had 27 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 33,932 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 14 Low 30° · 44 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Low 32° · 40 % · 33 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Moderate 32° · 42 % · 39 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Moderate 33° · 33 % · 32 km/h
  5. Wed 18 High 34° · 30 % · 43 km/h
  6. Thu 19 High 35° · 25 % · 40 km/h
  7. Fri 20 High 36° · 20 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sat 21 High 36° · 21 % · 34 km/h
  9. Sun 22 High 35° · 27 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in West Moyo: hourly forecast Today, 14 µg/m³ of PM2.5 (×1.0 the WHO guideline)

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

33,932
hectares burned
34 %
of its area
27
fires
988
km²

How many times has West Moyo burned?

West Moyo has burned 27 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: West Moyo fire, 22 January 2026, with 1,048 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 33,932 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 25,129 hectares, 25 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 6× 16
  2. 9× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 5× 26
27
fires
8
years with fire
33,932
cumulative ha
25,129
distinct ha

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 West Moyo

  1. 1,048 ha West Moyo fire, 22 January 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,041 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,052 ha West Moyo fire, 13 January 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,045 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,291 ha West Moyo fire, 9 January 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,282 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 1,246 ha West Moyo fire, 4 January 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,238 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 1,455 ha West Moyo fire, 4 January 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,445 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 787 ha West Moyo fire, December 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,146 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2,401 ha West Moyo fire, January 2022 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,385 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 1,362 ha West Moyo fire, 20 January 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,353 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 661 ha West Moyo fire, 7 January 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,054 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 2,278 ha West Moyo fire, 19 January 2020 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,263 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 1,129 ha West Moyo fire, 10 January 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,923 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 1,087 ha West Moyo fire, January 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,080 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 796 ha West Moyo fire, 29 December 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,309 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 882 ha West Moyo fire, 28 December 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,224 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 1,250 ha West Moyo fire, 23 December 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,242 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 795 ha West Moyo fire, 21 December 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,083 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 1,116 ha West Moyo fire, 15 December 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,109 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 1,432 ha West Moyo fire, 8 January 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,423 ha in total · 9 days
  19. 2,118 ha West Moyo fire, 6 January 2017 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,104 ha in total · 9 days
  20. 1,064 ha West Moyo fire, 5 January 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,057 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 766 ha West Moyo fire, 4 January 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,300 ha in total · 11 days
  22. 1,166 ha West Moyo fire, 27 December 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,159 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 1,041 ha West Moyo fire, 22 December 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,034 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 2,720 ha West Moyo fire, 19 December 2016 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 3,409 ha in total · 16 days
  25. 500 ha Obongi fire, 27 January 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 1,206 ha in total · 7 days
  26. 1,081 ha West Moyo fire, 20 January 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,074 ha in total · 15 days
  27. 1,405 ha West Moyo fire, 2 January 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,396 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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