Wildfires in Somali
Somali, Ethiopia: 3 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 53 districts since 2016, burning 11,961 hectares inside the region. The largest was Shilabo in September 2018, with 7,549 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).
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
- 11,961ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.0%
- 314,229 km²
- fires
- 3
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 4
- of 53
- Largest fire
- 7,549ha
- Shilabo · September 2018
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 27 Very low 29° · 51 % · 23 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 30° · 42 % · 25 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 30° · 39 % · 27 km/h
- Fri 30 Low 31° · 26 % · 28 km/h
- Sat 31 Moderate 31° · 31 % · 28 km/h
- Sun 1 Moderate 30° · 33 % · 29 km/h
- Mon 2 Moderate 32° · 23 % · 27 km/h
- Tue 3 Moderate 32° · 17 % · 27 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
- 7,549 haShilaboSeptember 2018 · 3 days
- 2,222 haWarderDecember 2018 · 4 days
- 2,191 haShinileJune 2017 · 2 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Somali · 3
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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