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Wildfires in Kabarole

District of Uganda

Wildfires in Kabarole

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 772 km² of Kabarole at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 156 km², ranking 63rd of 112 regions of Uganda.

156 km²detected in an average year
2015busiest year, 233 km²
2022quietest year, 93 km²
Februarypeak month, 34% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 214 km2'122013: 177 km2'132014: 151 km2'142015: 233 km2'152016: 201 km2'162017: 160 km2'172018: 196 km2'182019: 129 km2'192020: 113 km2'202021: 109 km2'212022: 93 km2'222023: 130 km2'232024: 104 km2'242025: 167 km2'25233 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 233 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 93 km². The 2021–2025 average is 38% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 29%JFebruary: 34%FMarch: 8.0%MApril: 0.4%AMay: 0.6%MJune: 2.6%JJuly: 10%JAugust: 6.9%ASeptember: 2.3%SOctober: 0.6%ONovember: 0.6%NDecember: 5.0%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 71% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 8 February 2018, with detections in 21 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 772 km² with at least one detection, 37% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year33543%
2 years15220%
3 to 5 years16622%
6 to 10 years11014%
11 years or more8.61.1%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 0.75, 30.25 and holds 54% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
2012214214
2013177186
2014151141
2015233252
2016201221
2017160157
2018196194
2019129127
2020113111
2021109105
20229389
2023130136
2024104105
2025167170

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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