Wildfires in Eastern Province
Eastern Province, Rwanda: 39 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 83,606 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kayonza in June 2024, with 6,759 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 5).
Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 83,606ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 8.8%
- 9,530 km²
- fires
- 39
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 7
- Largest fire
- 6,759ha
- Kayonza · June 2024
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Mon 26 Low 28° · 41 % · 39 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 28° · 46 % · 31 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 27° · 54 % · 27 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 27° · 55 % · 34 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 27° · 54 % · 37 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 26° · 57 % · 32 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 25° · 62 % · 36 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 26° · 77 % · 37 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
- 6,759 haKayonzaJune 2024 · 4 days
- 6,617 haGatsiboAugust 2022 · 5 days
- 5,537 haGatsiboJuly 2017 · 4 days
- 4,582 haNyagatareJuly 2026 · 2 days
- 3,241 haKayonzaAugust 2018 · 4 days
- 3,140 haNyagatareJuly 2017 · 5 days of 3,303 ha in total
- 2,888 haKayonza12 August 2019 · 8 days
- 2,802 haKayonzaJune 2022 · 7 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 | 7 | 16,107 | Nyagatare 4,582 ha |
| 2024 | 2 | 7,966 | Kayonza 6,759 ha |
| 2023 | 2 | 2,469 | Kayonza 1,362 ha |
| 2022 | 3 | 10,914 | Gatsibo 6,617 ha |
| 2021 | 4 | 7,394 | Kayonza 2,454 ha |
| 2020 | 5 | 7,411 | Gatsibo 2,479 ha |
| 2019 | 5 | 9,220 | Kayonza 2,888 ha |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,397 | Kayonza 3,241 ha |
| 2017 | 3 | 9,723 | Gatsibo 5,537 ha |
| 2016 | 5 | 7,005 | Gatsibo 2,413 ha |
All fires in Eastern Province · 39
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,653 haGatsibo25 August 2026 · 3 days
- 1,718 haGatsibo24 August 2026 · 2 days
- 4,582 haNyagatareJuly 2026 · 2 days
- 2,615 haKayonza29 June 2026 · 2 days
- 2,727 haKayonza23 June 2026 · 2 days
- 1,045 haKayonza23 June 2026 · 2 days
- 1,768 haNyagatareJune 2026 · 2 days
- 1,207 haNyagatareJuly 2024 · 2 days
- 6,759 haKayonzaJune 2024 · 4 days
- 1,108 haKayonzaJuly 2023 · 2 days
- 1,362 haKayonzaJune 2023 · 9 days
- 6,617 haGatsiboAugust 2022 · 5 days
- 1,495 haNyagatareJuly 2022 · 4 days
- 2,802 haKayonzaJune 2022 · 7 days
- 2,001 haKayonza24 June 2021 · 5 days
- 2,454 haKayonza24 June 2021 · 5 days
- 1,163 haKayonza24 June 2021 · 3 days
- 1,775 haNyagatareJune 2021 · 2 days
- 1,064 haKayonzaAugust 2020 · 2 days
- 1,078 haKayonzaJuly 2020 · 2 days
- 1,763 haGatsiboJuly 2020 · 3 days
- 1,028 haGatsibo18 June 2020 · 3 days
- 2,479 haGatsibo4 June 2020 · 6 days
- 1,988 haGatsiboAugust 2019 · 7 days
- 1,976 haNyagatareAugust 2019 · 2 days
- 2,888 haKayonza12 August 2019 · 8 days
- 1,314 haKayonza6 August 2019 · 2 days
- 1,054 haNyagatareJuly 2019 · 2 days
- 3,241 haKayonzaAugust 2018 · 4 days
- 1,065 haGatsiboJuly 2018 · 8 days
- 1,091 haKayonzaJuly 2018 · 1 day
- 5,537 haGatsiboJuly 2017 · 4 days
- 3,140 haNyagatareJuly 2017 · 5 days of 3,303 ha in total
- 1,046 haGatsiboJune 2017 · 2 days
- 1,014 haGatsiboAugust 2016 · 1 day
- 1,153 haKayonzaAugust 2016 · 1 day
- 2,413 haGatsibo23 July 2016 · 2 days
- 1,350 haGatsibo1 July 2016 · 9 days
- 1,074 haGatsiboJune 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/The Rwanda Geo Portal (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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