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Wildfires in Mayuge

District of Uganda

Wildfires in Mayuge

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 229 km² of Mayuge at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 26 km², ranking 103rd of 112 regions of Uganda.

26 km²detected in an average year
2021busiest year, 62 km²
2014quietest year, 11 km²
Februarypeak month, 16% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 16 km2'122013: 24 km2'132014: 11 km2'142015: 19 km2'152016: 34 km2'162017: 31 km2'172018: 19 km2'182019: 20 km2'192020: 12 km2'202021: 62 km2'212022: 58 km2'222023: 27 km2'232024: 11 km2'242025: 17 km2'2562 km2

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

The busiest year was 2021, with 62 km² detected; the quietest was 2014, with 11 km². The 2021–2025 average is 71% higher than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 14%JFebruary: 16%FMarch: 10%MApril: 1.2%AMay: 2.4%MJune: 4.5%JJuly: 6.3%JAugust: 11%ASeptember: 9.0%SOctober: 10%ONovember: 3.9%NDecember: 12%D16%

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

December, January and February together hold 42% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 8 January 2022, with detections in 4 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 229 km² with at least one detection, 12% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year14262%
2 years5825%
3 to 5 years2812%
6 to 10 years0.00.0%
11 years or more0.00.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 0.25, 33.75 and holds 86% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20121615
20132419
2014119
20151916
20163428
20173131
20181916
20192016
20201210
20216256
20225855
20232735
20241111
20251716

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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