Wildfires in Afar
Afar, Ethiopia: 10 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 32 districts since 2016, burning 28,178 hectares inside the region. The largest was Gewane in December 2020, with 6,476 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).
Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 28,178ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.3%
- 95,283 km²
- fires
- 10
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 32
- Largest fire
- 6,476ha
- Gewane · December 2020
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very high 37° · 33 % · 36 km/h
- Sat 24 Moderate 36° · 35 % · 32 km/h
- Sun 25 High 34° · 42 % · 32 km/h
- Mon 26 High 35° · 40 % · 30 km/h
- Tue 27 Very high 36° · 22 % · 40 km/h
- Wed 28 Very high 36° · 18 % · 38 km/h
- Thu 29 Extreme 37° · 11 % · 34 km/h
- Fri 30 Very high 38° · 12 % · 33 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Bure Mudaytu 14,355 ha · 13 %
- Amibara 7,034 ha · 1.8 %
- Gewane 6,789 ha · 0.8 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 5×Amibara7,034 ha
- 5×Gewane6,789 ha
- 4×Bure Mudaytu14,355 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 6,476 haGewaneDecember 2020 · 8 days
- 4,370 haBure MudaytuMarch 2019 · 8 days
- 3,306 haGewaneOctober 2020 · 3 days
- 3,263 haBure MudaytuMarch 2022 · 8 days
- 2,855 haGewaneJanuary 2017 · 3 days
- 2,663 haAmibaraDecember 2020 · 4 days
- 2,578 haBure MudaytuJune 2026 · 2 days
- 2,215 haAmibaraMarch 2021 · 4 days
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 | 2,578 | Bure Mudaytu 2,578 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 291 | Mieso 291 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 3,263 | Bure Mudaytu 3,263 ha |
| 2021 | 2 | 2,376 | Amibara 2,215 ha |
| 2020 | 3 | 12,446 | Gewane 6,476 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 4,370 | Bure Mudaytu 4,370 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 2,855 | Gewane 2,855 ha |
All fires in Afar · 10
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 2,578 haBure MudaytuJune 2026 · 2 days
- 291 haMiesoDecember 2024 · 3 days of 3,807 ha in total
- 3,263 haBure MudaytuMarch 2022 · 8 days
- 160 haMiesoMarch 2021 · 3 days of 7,256 ha in total
- 2,215 haAmibaraMarch 2021 · 4 days
- 2,663 haAmibaraDecember 2020 · 4 days
- 6,476 haGewaneDecember 2020 · 8 days
- 3,306 haGewaneOctober 2020 · 3 days
- 4,370 haBure MudaytuMarch 2019 · 8 days
- 2,855 haGewaneJanuary 2017 · 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/Open Africa, Code for Ethiopia (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).