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Wildfires in Tanzania

1,323 fires over 3,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 8,661,870 hectares burned across 74 districts.

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the GWIS yearly series.

These figures leave out 7 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Tanzania, at this point in the year: 3,372,379 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 8,277,328.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–20258,490,147 ha

Worst year2016 11,840,442 ha

With a page here1,323 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	11,739	3,390,764	GWIS
2025	18,139	6,232,131	GWIS
2024	18,502	6,319,400	GWIS
2023	20,849	6,535,285	GWIS
2022	23,948	7,569,654	GWIS
2021	29,296	9,753,247	GWIS
2020	29,568	10,216,640	GWIS
2019	26,147	9,145,594	GWIS
2018	28,016	8,274,770	GWIS
2017	26,391	9,014,308	GWIS
2016	34,100	11,840,442	GWIS
2015	33,580	11,567,992	GWIS
2014	28,446	9,286,954	GWIS
2013	32,298	10,909,184	GWIS
2012	34,680	11,711,713	GWIS

National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.

Hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.

	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026			17k	152k	251k	580k	241k	112k			1,353,516	Iringa 113,063 ha
2025			3k	20k	75k	226k	367k	271k	58k	15k	1,034,567	Ulanga 37,159 ha
2024				65k	86k	109k	108k	22k	8k		397,966	Iringa 54,511 ha
2023				20k	99k	89k	21k	12k			240,526	Iringa 42,802 ha
2022				69k	104k	68k	39k	81k	16k		377,724	Uvinza 17,964 ha
2021	3k			56k	137k	114k	332k	85k	209k	10k	946,399	Mbarali 140,758 ha
2020				109k	320k	207k	293k	162k	4k	4k	1,099,024	Serengeti 49,076 ha
2019		3k	6k	177k	367k	154k	76k	72k	8k		863,684	Iringa 97,386 ha
2018			6k	33k	76k	117k	198k	53k	13k		495,625	Iringa 113,445 ha
2017				138k	181k	146k	91k	103k	22k		681,515	Manyoni 45,221 ha
2016			12k	114k	357k	329k	50k	233k	75k		1,171,324	Iringa 138,240 ha