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Forest fires not only result in significant economic losses but also cause environmental damage. The utilization of computer vision techniques and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for forest fire monitoring has become a primary approach to accurately locate and extinguish fires during their early stages. However, traditional computer-based methods for UAV forest fire image segmentation require a large amount of pixel-level labeled data to train the networks, which can be time-consuming and costly to acquire. To address this challenge, we propose a novel weakly supervised approach for semantic segmentation of fire images in this study. Our method utilizes self-supervised attention foreground-aware pooling (SAP) and context-aware loss (CAL) to generate high-quality pseudo-labels, serving as substitutes for manual annotation. SAP collaborates with bounding box and class activation mapping (CAM) to generate a background attention map, which aids in the generation of accurate pseudo-labels. CAL further improves the quality of the pseudo-labels by incorporating contextual information related to the target objects, effectively reducing environmental noise. We conducted experiments on two publicly available UAV forest fire datasets: the Corsican dataset and the Flame dataset. Our proposed method achieved impressive results, with IoU values of 81.23% and 76.43% for the Corsican dataset and the Flame dataset, respectively. 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