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Wildfires in Ruyigi

Ruyigi, Burundi: 12 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 7 communes since 2016, burning 15,047 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ruyigi in August 2020, with 2,021 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
15,047ha
Since 2016
Of the region
6.6%
2,268 km²
fires
12
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 7
Largest fire
2,021ha
Ruyigi · August 2020
Inhabitants
—

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 14 Very low 23° · 71 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 24° · 79 % · 30 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 23° · 79 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 22° · 80 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 22° · 81 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 23° · 80 % · 35 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 24° · 72 % · 33 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 24° · 78 % · 33 km/h

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Bweru 5,903 ha · 18 %
  2. Butezi 4,882 ha · 15 %
  3. Gisuru 4,037 ha · 7.7 %
  4. Ruyigi 225 ha · 0.8 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202622,336 Gisuru 1,308 ha
202411,752 Bweru 1,752 ha
202211,982 Butezi 1,982 ha
202111,031 Bweru 1,031 ha
202023,146 Ruyigi 2,021 ha
201922,165 Bweru 1,305 ha
201822,603 Butezi 1,377 ha
2016133 Cankuzo 33 ha

All fires in Ruyigi · 12

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).

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