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Wildfires in Western Region

Western Region, Uganda: 272 fires with a page have entered 23 of its 41 counties since 2016, burning 531,905 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kibanda in 2 January 2017, with 41,503 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
531,905ha
Since 2016
Of the region
10%
51,708 km²
fires
272
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
23
of 41
Largest fire
41,503ha
Kibanda · 2 January 2017
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 6 Very low 27° · 60 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 7 Very low 25° · 63 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 8 Very low 26° · 66 % · 18 km/h
  4. Mon 9 Very low 26° · 67 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 10 Very low 26° · 73 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 11 Very low 26° · 74 % · 21 km/h
  7. Thu 12 Very low 23° · 80 % · 31 km/h
  8. Fri 13 Very low 24° · 74 % · 25 km/h

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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. Buliisa 191,853 ha · 83 %
  2. Kibanda 162,964 ha · 45 %
  3. Busongora 47,793 ha · 22 %
  4. Bunyaruguru 26,096 ha · 22 %
  5. Bujumbura 20,933 ha · 17 %
  6. Burahya 18,064 ha · 11 %
  7. Kinkiizi 12,762 ha · 11 %
  8. Nyabushozi 10,257 ha · 3.5 %
  9. Buyanja 7,900 ha · 6.5 %
  10. Buhaguzi 7,486 ha · 4.0 %
  11. Ntoroko 7,337 ha · 7.8 %
  12. Buruuli 5,914 ha · 3.0 %

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
20264070,398 Buliisa 9,785 ha
20253243,302 Buliisa 3,997 ha
20241417,174 Busongora 2,220 ha
20232848,627 Busongora 5,530 ha
20221422,469 Busongora 4,556 ha
20211834,523 Kibanda 4,421 ha
20201932,400 Buliisa 4,196 ha
20191939,317 Buliisa 10,869 ha
20181231,850 Buliisa 7,444 ha
201735105,033 Kibanda 41,503 ha
20164186,812 Kibanda 13,953 ha

All fires in Western Region · 272

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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