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Wildfires in SNNPR

SNNPR, Ethiopia: 190 fires with a page have entered 32 of its 137 districts since 2016, burning 714,499 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ela (Konta) SP Woreda in 22 December 2016, with 20,334 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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
714,499ha
Since 2016
Of the region
6.5%
109,674 km²
fires
190
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
32
of 137
Largest fire
20,334ha
Ela (Konta) SP Woreda · 22 December 2016
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 63 % · 33 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 67 % · 26 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 49 % · 28 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 38 % · 26 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 35 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Low 28° · 30 % · 28 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Low 28° · 31 % · 24 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. Ela (Konta) SP Woreda 146,164 ha · 62 %
  2. Surma 111,310 ha · 23 %
  3. Decha 98,506 ha · 34 %
  4. Gurafereda 61,523 ha · 25 %
  5. Maji 48,470 ha · 11 %
  6. Cheta 47,102 ha · 71 %
  7. Selamgo 38,834 ha · 8.4 %
  8. Esira 28,824 ha · 27 %
  9. Loma Bosa 24,609 ha · 21 %
  10. Menit Shasha 20,057 ha · 6.8 %
  11. Tocha 12,601 ha · 16 %
  12. Melekoza 11,604 ha · 6.9 %

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
20262267,331 Cheta 7,360 ha
20251337,754 Ela (Konta) SP Woreda 4,702 ha
2024513,358 Ela (Konta) SP Woreda 4,090 ha
2023615,083 Ela (Konta) SP Woreda 3,457 ha
202236,770 Maji 2,367 ha
20212492,127 Decha 18,657 ha
20201030,255 Surma 8,242 ha
201938158,214 Ela (Konta) SP Woreda 18,625 ha
2018930,355 Esira 9,524 ha
20171859,088 Gurafereda 11,033 ha
201642204,164 Ela (Konta) SP Woreda 20,334 ha

All fires in SNNPR · 190

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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