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Wildfires in Mukono

District of Uganda

Wildfires in Mukono

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 1,140 km² of Mukono at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 197 km², ranking 52nd of 112 regions of Uganda.

197 km²detected in an average year
2012busiest year, 327 km²
2024quietest year, 105 km²
Februarypeak month, 29% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 327 km2'122013: 202 km2'132014: 224 km2'142015: 323 km2'152016: 262 km2'162017: 239 km2'172018: 151 km2'182019: 156 km2'192020: 113 km2'202021: 162 km2'212022: 165 km2'222023: 146 km2'232024: 105 km2'242025: 183 km2'25327 km2

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

The busiest year was 2012, with 327 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 105 km². The 2021–2025 average is 43% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 20%JFebruary: 29%FMarch: 13%MApril: 1.8%AMay: 2.0%MJune: 3.2%JJuly: 7.8%JAugust: 5.7%ASeptember: 4.6%SOctober: 3.7%ONovember: 2.3%NDecember: 6.2%D29%

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 63% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 9 February 2012, with detections in 35 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 1,140 km² with at least one detection, 35% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year47742%
2 years26323%
3 to 5 years30227%
6 to 10 years938.2%
11 years or more1.20.1%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 0.25, 32.75 and holds 65% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
2012327309
2013202189
2014224201
2015323322
2016262271
2017239237
2018151154
2019156161
2020113116
2021162144
2022165156
2023146143
2024105106
2025183177

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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