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Wildfires in Babati

Babati, Tanzania, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 80,663 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 37).

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 High 35° · 22 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 35° · 17 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 35° · 16 % · 38 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 35 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 36 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 41 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 46 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 39 % · 23 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

80,663
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
20
fires
5,608
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Babati

  1. 3,329 ha Babati fire, September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,307 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 4,127 ha Babati fire, 30 September 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,345 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 4,396 ha Babati fire, 26 September 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,847 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 7,034 ha Babati fire, 19 September 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 6,989 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 137 ha Kondoa fire, August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 4,189 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 3,238 ha Babati fire, July 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,218 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 5,001 ha Babati fire, July 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,966 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 6,062 ha Babati fire, June 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,020 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 5,278 ha Babati fire, 4 October 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,244 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 4,411 ha Babati fire, 2 October 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,492 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 3,570 ha Babati fire, 26 September 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,546 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 748 ha Simanjiro fire, September 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 3,196 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 5,848 ha Babati fire, 11 September 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 6,416 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 3,312 ha Babati fire, July 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,290 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 3,464 ha Babati fire, July 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,441 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 5,036 ha Babati fire, July 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,002 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 1,472 ha Babati fire, November 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,085 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 3,866 ha Babati fire, 14 August 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,840 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 3,541 ha Babati fire, 2 August 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,517 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 6,791 ha Babati fire, July 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 7,105 ha in total · 9 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics / UN OCHA ROSA, OCHA ROSA (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).