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Wildfires in Bulambuli

County of Uganda

Wildfires in Bulambuli

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 UTC

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Fire history, 2012–2025

Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23

Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 506 km² of Bulambuli at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 217 km², ranking 49th of 112 regions of Uganda.

217 km²detected in an average year
2015busiest year, 312 km²
2024quietest year, 120 km²
Februarypeak month, 34% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 291 km2'122013: 237 km2'132014: 269 km2'142015: 312 km2'152016: 268 km2'162017: 188 km2'172018: 239 km2'182019: 233 km2'192020: 128 km2'202021: 213 km2'212022: 176 km2'222023: 160 km2'232024: 120 km2'242025: 206 km2'25312 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2015, with 312 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 120 km². The 2021–2025 average is 36% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 27%JFebruary: 34%FMarch: 18%MApril: 2.6%AMay: 0.2%MJune: 0.3%JJuly: 0.8%JAugust: 1.1%ASeptember: 1.4%SOctober: 1.2%ONovember: 2.7%NDecember: 11%D34%

Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.

January, February and March together hold 79% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 27 February 2013, with detections in 31 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 506 km² with at least one detection, 74% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year8016%
2 years5010%
3 to 5 years11022%
6 to 10 years19438%
11 years or more7114%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 1.25, 34.25 and holds 57% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
2012291470
2013237343
2014269393
2015312470
2016268424
2017188257
2018239391
2019233384
2020128141
2021213288
2022176220
2023160205
2024120151
2025206278

Other regions of Uganda

Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.

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