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Wildfires in Central Region

Central Region, Uganda: 39 fires with a page have entered 18 of its 33 counties since 2016, burning 69,859 hectares inside the region. The largest was Mawokota in August 2026, with 6,536 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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
69,859ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.7%
40,863 km²
fires
39
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
18
of 33
Largest fire
6,536ha
Mawokota · August 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 25 Very low 27° · 68 % · 36 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 75 % · 23 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 85 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 69 % · 22 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 73 % · 34 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 73 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 76 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 26° · 71 % · 25 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. Mawokota 13,333 ha · 8.5 %
  2. Kalungu 11,378 ha · 14 %
  3. Bbaale 11,011 ha · 8.9 %
  4. Kyotera 4,553 ha · 5.1 %
  5. Bukomansimbi 4,230 ha · 6.1 %
  6. Kiboga 3,702 ha · 0.9 %
  7. Kakuuto 3,389 ha · 3.3 %
  8. Butambala 3,323 ha · 7.8 %
  9. Bukuto 2,890 ha · 1.3 %
  10. Buruli 2,871 ha · 0.8 %
  11. Buwekula 2,796 ha · 1.0 %
  12. Bamunanika 1,667 ha · 1.4 %

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
20261629,464 Mawokota 6,536 ha
202547,798 Mawokota 2,867 ha
202423,388 Kalungu 1,746 ha
202334,335 Mawokota 1,713 ha
202033,606 Lwemiyaga 1,413 ha
2019713,327 Bbaale 4,092 ha
201811,075 Kiboga 1,075 ha
201736,867 Kyotera 3,224 ha

All fires in Central Region · 39

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/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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