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Wildfires in Bariadi

Bariadi, Tanzania, has had 45 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 205,876 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 37% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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. Tue 27 Very high 33° · 19 % · 40 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 32° · 31 % · 44 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 61 % · 41 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 52 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 56 % · 31 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 60 % · 43 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 45 % · 40 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 45 % · 31 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

205,876
hectares burned
37 %
of its area
45
fires
5,521
km²

How many times has Bariadi burned?

Bariadi has burned 45 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Bariadi fire, 11 October 2026, with 4,652 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 5× 16
  2.   17
  3. 5× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 9× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 6× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 8× 26
45
fires
10
years with fire
205,876
cumulative ha
11 Oct 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 3,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Tanzania →

Fires that entered Bariadi

  1. 4,652 ha Bariadi fire, 11 October 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,621 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 11,359 ha Serengeti fire, October 2026 2.1% of the municipality · 12,064 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 3,550 ha Bariadi fire, 1 October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,225 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 3 ha Ngorongoro fire, 8 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,092 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 379 ha Itilima fire, June 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 6,990 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 3,295 ha Bariadi fire, 24 June 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,530 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2,619 ha Serengeti fire, 21 June 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 8,170 ha in total · 14 days
  8. 3,727 ha Bariadi fire, 17 June 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,702 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 240 ha Itilima fire, December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 6,285 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 4,860 ha Bariadi fire, November 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,828 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 3,467 ha Bariadi fire, 27 July 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,212 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 3,056 ha Bariadi fire, 22 July 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,036 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 6,327 ha Bariadi fire, September 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 7,825 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 364 ha Serengeti fire, 28 June 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 7,236 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 67 ha Serengeti fire, 23 June 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,645 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 316 ha Itilima fire, June 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 4,801 ha in total · 16 days
  17. 501 ha Serengeti fire, 18 June 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 3,035 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 3,307 ha Bariadi fire, June 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,880 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 1,289 ha Serengeti fire, July 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 3,330 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 3,222 ha Bariadi fire, July 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,201 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 3,511 ha Bariadi fire, 4 July 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,488 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 3,488 ha Bariadi fire, 1 July 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,520 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 8,221 ha Bariadi fire, 25 July 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 8,166 ha in total · 9 days
  24. 3,871 ha Bariadi fire, 13 July 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,845 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 6,642 ha Bariadi fire, June 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 6,599 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 12,138 ha Bariadi fire, September 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 13,929 ha in total · 11 days
  27. 3,160 ha Bariadi fire, 24 July 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,139 ha in total · 5 days
  28. 313 ha Itilima fire, July 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 4,154 ha in total · 10 days
  29. 4,192 ha Bariadi fire, 19 July 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,164 ha in total · 8 days
  30. 5,182 ha Serengeti fire, 15 July 2020 0.9% of the municipality · 16,712 ha in total · 12 days
  31. 11,038 ha Bariadi fire, 3 July 2020 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 15,533 ha in total · 14 days
  32. 16,499 ha Serengeti fire, 18 June 2020 3.0% of the municipality · 33,514 ha in total · 29 days
  33. 8,478 ha Bariadi fire, June 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 8,423 ha in total · 13 days
  34. 1 ha Serengeti fire, 2 June 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 4,645 ha in total · 7 days
  35. 3,757 ha Bariadi fire, July 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,732 ha in total · 3 days
  36. 6,333 ha Bariadi fire, 29 September 2018 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 6,291 ha in total · 3 days
  37. 2,274 ha Bariadi fire, 21 September 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,001 ha in total · 7 days
  38. 4,775 ha Bariadi fire, July 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,743 ha in total · 11 days
  39. 5,328 ha Bariadi fire, June 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,292 ha in total · 9 days
  40. 5,540 ha Serengeti fire, June 2018 1.0% of the municipality · 12,489 ha in total · 29 days
  41. 615 ha Serengeti fire, 24 July 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 3,696 ha in total · 3 days
  42. 5,757 ha Itilima fire, 6 July 2016 1.0% of the municipality · 12,451 ha in total · 13 days
  43. 4,725 ha Bariadi fire, 1 July 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 9,106 ha in total · 14 days
  44. 4,218 ha Bariadi fire, 1 July 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,190 ha in total · 6 days
  45. 19,218 ha Bariadi fire, June 2016 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 20,642 ha in total · 16 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).

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