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Wildfires in Oromia

Oromia, Ethiopia: 316 fires with a page have entered 54 of its 260 districts since 2016, burning 906,817 hectares inside the region. The largest was Yaso in 1 January 2017, with 11,992 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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
906,817ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.8%
325,642 km²
fires
316
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
54
of 260
Largest fire
11,992ha
Yaso · 1 January 2017
Inhabitants
—

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 Low 25° · 36 % · 28 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Low 25° · 37 % · 27 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Low 26° · 33 % · 26 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Low 26° · 36 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Low 26° · 39 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Low 25° · 53 % · 31 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 25° · 50 % · 28 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 24° · 62 % · 30 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Yaso 191,832 ha · 74 %
  2. Gidami 122,365 ha · 63 %
  3. Amuru 66,339 ha · 57 %
  4. Kiremu 63,301 ha · 57 %
  5. Ababo 60,966 ha · 59 %
  6. Gida Ayana 48,849 ha · 28 %
  7. Anfilo 37,700 ha · 27 %
  8. Hawa Galan 34,412 ha · 41 %
  9. Bure 33,599 ha · 31 %
  10. Jarte Jardega 29,572 ha · 25 %
  11. Darimu 27,666 ha · 21 %
  12. Mieso 24,110 ha · 9.1 %

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
202639113,673 Gidami 9,329 ha
20252367,544 Ababo 7,604 ha
20241535,877 Teltele 3,846 ha
20231018,467 Ababo 2,704 ha
20222159,829 Kiremu 6,489 ha
202144149,528 Ababo 9,478 ha
20202664,869 Yaso 7,077 ha
20193089,748 Amuru 7,174 ha
20181126,253 Gidami 4,583 ha
201742118,306 Yaso 11,992 ha
201655162,722 Metu Zuria 11,199 ha

All fires in Oromia · 316

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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