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Wildfires in Chato

Chato, Tanzania, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2026: 1,410 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 Very low 28° · 55 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 25° · 64 % · 35 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 61 % · 31 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 65 % · 34 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 67 % · 35 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 64 % · 39 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 61 % · 29 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 67 % · 34 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

1,410
hectares burned
0.5 %
of its area
1
fires
3,095
km²

How many times has Chato burned?

Chato has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Biharamulo fire, July 2026, with 1,410 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
1,410
cumulative ha
1 Jul 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 Chato

  1. 1,410 ha Biharamulo fire, July 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 3,078 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).

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