Wildfires in Tigray
Tigray, Ethiopia: 21 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 34 districts since 2016, burning 61,420 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kafta Humera in December 2019, with 8,296 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 21).
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
- 61,420ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.2%
- 52,917 km²
- fires
- 21
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 34
- Largest fire
- 8,296ha
- Kafta Humera · December 2019
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Moderate 28° · 23 % · 40 km/h
- Sat 24 Moderate 27° · 28 % · 31 km/h
- Sun 25 Moderate 28° · 31 % · 40 km/h
- Mon 26 Low 28° · 31 % · 42 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 26° · 39 % · 46 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 25° · 39 % · 37 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 27° · 31 % · 31 km/h
- Fri 30 Moderate 28° · 23 % · 37 km/h
Burning now in the region
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Kafta Humera 54,299 ha · 8.8 %
- Tahtay Adiyabo 4,507 ha · 1.1 %
- Welkait 2,614 ha · 0.7 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 20×Kafta Humera54,299 ha
- 4×Tahtay Adiyabo4,507 ha
- 2×Welkait2,614 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 8,296 haKafta HumeraDecember 2019 · 7 days
- 4,030 haKafta Humera16 November 2021 · 5 days
- 3,526 haKafta Humera12 December 2017 · 6 days
- 3,110 haKafta Humera23 December 2017 · 5 days
- 3,044 haKafta HumeraNovember 2016 · 5 days
- 2,922 haTahtay AdiyaboJanuary 2023 · 2 days
- 2,844 haKafta Humera22 October 2025 · 10 days
- 2,838 haKafta HumeraOctober 2019 · 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 | 2 | 4,675 | Kafta Humera 2,580 ha |
| 2025 | 3 | 7,860 | Kafta Humera 2,844 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 2,922 | Tahtay Adiyabo 2,922 ha |
| 2021 | 3 | 8,710 | Kafta Humera 4,030 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 2,267 | Kafta Humera 2,267 ha |
| 2019 | 3 | 13,599 | Kafta Humera 8,296 ha |
| 2018 | 1 | 2,196 | Kafta Humera 2,196 ha |
| 2017 | 6 | 16,146 | Kafta Humera 3,526 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 3,044 | Kafta Humera 3,044 ha |
All fires in Tigray · 21
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 2,096 haKafta Humera 15 October 2026 · 8 days
- 2,580 haKafta Humera 13 October 2026 · 11 days
- 2,523 haKafta Humera25 October 2025 · 7 days
- 2,844 haKafta Humera22 October 2025 · 10 days
- 2,493 haKafta Humera22 October 2025 · 8 days
- 2,922 haTahtay AdiyaboJanuary 2023 · 2 days
- 2,644 haKafta Humera26 November 2021 · 7 days
- 4,030 haKafta Humera16 November 2021 · 5 days
- 2,036 haKafta HumeraJanuary 2021 · 5 days
- 2,267 haKafta HumeraNovember 2020 · 4 days
- 8,296 haKafta HumeraDecember 2019 · 7 days
- 2,838 haKafta HumeraOctober 2019 · 4 days
- 2,465 haKafta HumeraJanuary 2019 · 4 days
- 2,196 haKafta HumeraApril 2018 · 2 days
- 2,316 haWelkaitDecember 2017 · 3 days
- 3,110 haKafta Humera23 December 2017 · 5 days
- 3,526 haKafta Humera12 December 2017 · 6 days
- 2,339 haKafta Humera10 December 2017 · 4 days
- 2,788 haKafta HumeraNovember 2017 · 9 days
- 2,067 haKafta HumeraMarch 2017 · 4 days
- 3,044 haKafta HumeraNovember 2016 · 5 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).