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Wildfires in Bukombe

Bukombe, Tanzania, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 5,865 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.7% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 22).

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. Sat 24 Moderate 32° · 27 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 31° · 24 % · 33 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 33° · 27 % · 40 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 33° · 29 % · 36 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 62 % · 34 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 58 % · 31 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 67 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 77 % · 27 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

5,865
hectares burned
0.7 %
of its area
3
fires
8,110
km²

How many times has Bukombe burned?

Bukombe has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kibondo fire, 22 August 2026, with 2,206 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
2
years with fire
5,865
cumulative ha
22 Aug 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 Bukombe

  1. 2,206 ha Kibondo fire, 22 August 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 4,437 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 98 ha Kibondo fire, October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,865 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 3,561 ha Bukombe fire, August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,538 ha in total · 8 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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