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Wildfires in Eastern Region

Eastern Region, Uganda: 37 fires with a page have entered 13 of its 39 counties since 2016, burning 42,321 hectares inside the region. The largest was Usuk in 5 November 2025, with 6,158 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
42,321ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.3%
32,034 km²
fires
37
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
13
of 39
Largest fire
6,158ha
Usuk · 5 November 2025
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 44 % · 24 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 46 % · 25 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 53 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Low 31° · 42 % · 41 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Low 31° · 39 % · 27 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Low 31° · 37 % · 30 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Low 31° · 46 % · 42 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Low 33° · 34 % · 34 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. Usuk 23,884 ha · 9.7 %
  2. Bulambuli 6,861 ha · 10 %
  3. Bulamogi 2,189 ha · 2.5 %
  4. Bunyole 2,036 ha · 3.3 %
  5. Kween 1,506 ha · 1.8 %
  6. Busiki 1,445 ha · 1.8 %
  7. Kibuku 1,149 ha · 2.1 %
  8. Pallisa 1,007 ha · 1.3 %
  9. Soroti 954 ha · 0.7 %
  10. Tororo 502 ha · 1.0 %
  11. Samia-Bugwe 497 ha · 0.6 %
  12. Kongasis 162 ha · 0.3 %

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
20261213,904 Bulambuli 3,897 ha
2025812,381 Usuk 6,158 ha
202311,179 Usuk 1,179 ha
202142,226 Bulambuli 1,155 ha
20201831 Usuk 831 ha
201944,579 Bulamogi 2,005 ha
201754,369 Samia-Bugwe 1,128 ha
201622,853 Kibuku 2,177 ha

All fires in Eastern Region · 37

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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