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Wildfires in Amhara

Amhara, Ethiopia: 241 fires with a page have entered 14 of its 128 districts since 2016, burning 784,647 hectares inside the region. The largest was Quara in 5 November 2020, with 39,155 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

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
784,647ha
Since 2016
Of the region
5.1%
153,390 km²
fires
241
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
14
of 128
Largest fire
39,155ha
Quara · 5 November 2020
Inhabitants
—

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 5 Moderate 27° · 23 % · 21 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Moderate 27° · 27 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Moderate 28° · 25 % · 20 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Moderate 29° · 27 % · 26 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Moderate 28° · 29 % · 25 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Low 28° · 32 % · 39 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Low 28° · 31 % · 47 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 27° · 33 % · 41 km/h

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Burning now in the region

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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. Quara 576,969 ha · 68 %
  2. Debre Elias 56,063 ha · 48 %
  3. Guangua 44,854 ha · 19 %
  4. Wemberma 41,627 ha · 31 %
  5. Bure 21,897 ha · 27 %
  6. Dembecha 8,335 ha · 8.6 %
  7. Jawi 7,720 ha · 2.4 %
  8. Baso Liben 6,627 ha · 5.9 %
  9. Metema 5,671 ha · 1.5 %
  10. Guzamn 3,790 ha · 3.7 %
  11. Chilga 3,707 ha · 1.1 %
  12. Mirab Armacho 2,698 ha · 1.0 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (2,000 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
20261426,963 Quara 6,330 ha
20251858,891 Quara 35,966 ha
2024929,149 Quara 16,768 ha
20231954,240 Quara 6,772 ha
20221439,310 Bure 7,782 ha
202136107,510 Quara 15,843 ha
202038151,504 Quara 39,155 ha
20192688,133 Quara 23,799 ha
20181125,352 Dembecha 8,088 ha
20172690,672 Quara 15,636 ha
201630112,922 Quara 16,922 ha

All fires in Amhara · 241

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/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).

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