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Wildfires in Mitooma

District of Uganda

Wildfires in Mitooma

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 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 152 km² of Mitooma at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 22 km², ranking 106th of 112 regions of Uganda.

22 km²detected in an average year
2013busiest year, 40 km²
2012quietest year, 9.9 km²
Julypeak month, 48% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 9.9 km2'122013: 40 km2'132014: 14 km2'142015: 26 km2'152016: 31 km2'162017: 22 km2'172018: 27 km2'182019: 15 km2'192020: 35 km2'202021: 30 km2'212022: 9.9 km2'222023: 26 km2'232024: 9.9 km2'242025: 12 km2'2540 km2

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

The busiest year was 2013, with 40 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 9.9 km². The 2021–2025 average is 27% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 1.1%JFebruary: 4.0%FMarch: 1.5%MApril: 0.0%AMay: 0.4%MJune: 12%JJuly: 48%JAugust: 31%ASeptember: 2.2%SOctober: 0.0%ONovember: 0.0%NDecember: 0.0%D48%

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

June, July and August together hold 91% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 22 July 2018, with detections in 7 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 152 km² with at least one detection, 26% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year7952%
2 years3422%
3 to 5 years3523%
6 to 10 years4.93.2%
11 years or more0.00.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -0.75, 30.25 and holds 74% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20129.98
20134037
20141412
20152623
20163130
20172219
20182723
20191512
20203530
20213028
20229.910
20232622
20249.98
20251212

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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