Schmallenberg virus (SBV) is a novel Orthobunyavirus that causes drop milk production,rndiarrhea, fever, congenital malformation and abortion to the affected animal. First it spreadrnrapidly throughout the European continent and then to other parts of the world. In Ethiopia, therernwas no previous study conducted on the detection of SBV in Culicoides and ensemble modelingrnof SBV vectors in Ethiopia. Thus, this study aimed to conduct entomological survey, SBVrndetection and ensemble modeling of the vectors. An entomological survey was conducted duringrnthe study from October, 2019 to May, 2020 in Adama, Bishoftu, Holeta, Jimma, and Sebeta. Thernresult showed that from the total of 6356 adult Culicoides midges collected, C. imicola (32%), C.rnkings (30%), C. deltus (4%), C.milnei (13%), and not identified (20%) were recorded. Detectionrnof SBV from a total of 29 pools of Culicoides midges containing 70-160 Culicoides/pool wasrnperformed using real-time RT-PCR. The results revealed that, none of the Culicoides midgesrnwere positive for SBV genome. Ensemble model were developed using predictor variables landrncover data, livestock, mean annual maximum temperature, mean annual minimum temperature,rnprecipitation, solar radiation, water vapour and wind. The overall contributions of the variables tornthe model were mean annual minimum temperature (49.5%) highest and land cover (3.9%)rnlowest. Of 30 individual models developed, 27 had ROC > 0.90 and 24 had TSS and Kappa >rn0.80. The ensemble model of the 30 models showed most parts of Ethiopia are suitable for C.rnimicola. The suitability differs across zones. High probability of suitability occurs in Borena,rnBale, East Hararge, East Shewa, North Shewa, West Shewa, Hadiya, North Wollo, SouthernrnTigray, and Eastern Tigray while low suitable areas were occurs in Benchimaji, Shaka, Kafa,rnGambela, Zone 1 and 2 and Afar Regional State. Thus, our results suggested that more work isrnneeded on viral detection of SBV, modeling of the spatial and temporal situations of both vectorrnand the disease.