Wildfires in Bubanza
Bubanza, Burundi: one fire with a page has entered 1 of its 5 communes since 2016, burning 1,200 hectares inside the region. The largest was Gihanga in June 2026, with 1,200 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).
Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 1,200ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.1%
- 1,058 km²
- fires
- 1
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 5
- Largest fire
- 1,200ha
- Gihanga · June 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 22° · 62 % · 38 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 22° · 59 % · 42 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 23° · 48 % · 37 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 23° · 46 % · 39 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 23° · 54 % · 35 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 22° · 87 % · 37 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 22° · 69 % · 33 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 22° · 69 % · 26 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Gihanga 1,200 ha · 4.4 %
Largest recorded fires
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 1,200 | Gihanga 1,200 ha |
All fires in Bubanza · 1
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
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 (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).