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Wildfires in Gash-Barka

Gash-Barka, Eritrea: 42 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 14 subzones since 2016, burning 83,090 hectares inside the region. The largest was Omhajer in January 2019, with 7,641 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 50).

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
83,090ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.5%
33,623 km²
fires
42
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 14
Largest fire
7,641ha
Omhajer · January 2019
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 29 Extreme 38° · 13 % · 35 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very high 38° · 13 % · 33 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very high 38° · 12 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Extreme 39° · 9 % · 34 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Extreme 39° · 11 % · 34 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Extreme 38° · 9 % · 43 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Extreme 38° · 10 % · 37 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Extreme 38° · 11 % · 34 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Omhajer 58,271 ha · 12 %
  2. Lalay Gash 23,509 ha · 5.7 %
  3. Shambuko 1,309 ha · 0.8 %
  4. Haykota 0 ha · 0.0 %

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
202636,653 Lalay Gash 4,547 ha
2025811,348 Omhajer 1,955 ha
202345,502 Lalay Gash 1,846 ha
202246,603 Lalay Gash 2,112 ha
202123,436 Omhajer 1,729 ha
20201330,232 Omhajer 5,816 ha
2019819,317 Omhajer 7,641 ha

All fires in Gash-Barka · 42

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/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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