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Wildfires in Chunya

Chunya, Tanzania, has had 67 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 326,918 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 26).

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. Mon 26 Moderate 27° · 32 % · 48 km/h
  2. Tue 27 High 30° · 24 % · 41 km/h
  3. Wed 28 High 30° · 25 % · 36 km/h
  4. Thu 29 High 30° · 25 % · 34 km/h
  5. Fri 30 High 30° · 30 % · 26 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 31 % · 34 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 45 % · 37 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 27° · 47 % · 36 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

326,918
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
67
fires
17,619
km²

How many times has Chunya burned?

Chunya has burned 67 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Manyoni fire, 26 September 2026, with 236 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 10× 16
  2. 9× 17
  3. 7× 18
  4. 6× 19
  5. 9× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 6× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 5× 26
67
fires
11
years with fire
326,918
cumulative ha
26 Sept 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 Chunya

  1. 236 ha Manyoni fire, 26 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,677 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 49,615 ha Iringa fire, 19 August 2026 2.8% of the municipality · 113,063 ha in total · 45 days
  3. 243 ha Manyoni fire, 9 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 11,936 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 2,209 ha Chunya fire, August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,744 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 2,297 ha Manyoni fire, 16 July 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 22,710 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 316 ha Iringa fire, 9 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 6,113 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 5,109 ha Chunya fire, September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,036 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 32,363 ha Chunya fire, August 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 32,334 ha in total · 18 days
  9. 1,335 ha Mbarali fire, 16 September 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 5,496 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 503 ha Mbarali fire, 15 September 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 10,855 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 22 ha Iringa fire, August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 10,573 ha in total · 21 days
  12. 16,571 ha Chunya fire, August 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 16,471 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 1,549 ha Iringa fire, 29 July 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 4,303 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 2,965 ha Iringa fire, 29 July 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 6,169 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 759 ha Mbarali fire, September 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 4,841 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 2,348 ha Iringa fire, 8 August 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 4,690 ha in total · 11 days
  17. 29 ha Iringa fire, 7 August 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 3,672 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 223 ha Iringa fire, 24 July 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 3,878 ha in total · 12 days
  19. 43 ha Mbarali fire, 29 August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 4,793 ha in total · 13 days
  20. 4,673 ha Chunya fire, 15 August 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,652 ha in total · 7 days
  21. 4,873 ha Chunya fire, 14 August 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,844 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 11,721 ha Chunya fire, 11 August 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 15,782 ha in total · 20 days
  23. 4,729 ha Chunya fire, September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,702 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 3,408 ha Chunya fire, 20 July 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,389 ha in total · 11 days
  25. 8,884 ha Chunya fire, 14 July 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 8,831 ha in total · 9 days
  26. 1,744 ha Iringa fire, 9 July 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 7,792 ha in total · 15 days
  27. 2,421 ha Chunya fire, 7 October 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,346 ha in total · 7 days
  28. 5,833 ha Chunya fire, 4 October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,796 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 1,000 ha Mbarali fire, 4 October 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 4,264 ha in total · 4 days
  30. 3,616 ha Chunya fire, 30 September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 9,707 ha in total · 9 days
  31. 4,427 ha Chunya fire, 11 September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,402 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 3,668 ha Chunya fire, 30 August 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,647 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 3,574 ha Chunya fire, 28 August 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,553 ha in total · 10 days
  34. 4,502 ha Chunya fire, 27 August 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,474 ha in total · 4 days
  35. 2,669 ha Manyoni fire, 15 July 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 15,867 ha in total · 10 days
  36. 4,616 ha Chunya fire, August 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,591 ha in total · 11 days
  37. 2,429 ha Iringa fire, 14 July 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 18,155 ha in total · 19 days
  38. 17,174 ha Chunya fire, July 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 17,071 ha in total · 21 days
  39. 8,683 ha Iringa fire, 6 July 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 97,386 ha in total · 31 days
  40. 1,232 ha Manyoni fire, 5 June 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 9,311 ha in total · 17 days
  41. 4,227 ha Chunya fire, June 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,201 ha in total · 9 days
  42. 866 ha Iringa fire, September 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 113,445 ha in total · 42 days
  43. 99 ha Manyoni fire, September 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 3,648 ha in total · 5 days
  44. 3,507 ha Chunya fire, 27 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,487 ha in total · 3 days
  45. 1,165 ha Chunya fire, 13 August 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 8,838 ha in total · 16 days
  46. 276 ha Manyoni fire, 13 August 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 5,216 ha in total · 15 days
  47. 3,082 ha Chunya fire, 11 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,852 ha in total · 10 days
  48. 5,797 ha Chunya fire, 3 August 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,768 ha in total · 19 days
  49. 3,599 ha Chunya fire, September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,577 ha in total · 9 days
  50. 8,280 ha Iringa fire, 8 August 2017 0.5% of the municipality · 39,206 ha in total · 41 days
  51. 3,069 ha Chunya fire, 28 July 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,053 ha in total · 8 days
  52. 11,535 ha Chunya fire, 24 July 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 12,300 ha in total · 17 days
  53. 5,234 ha Chunya fire, 21 July 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,202 ha in total · 12 days
  54. 3,040 ha Songwe fire, 22 June 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 3,574 ha in total · 12 days
  55. 4,366 ha Chunya fire, 22 June 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,340 ha in total · 6 days
  56. 3,413 ha Manyoni fire, 20 June 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 21,814 ha in total · 15 days
  57. 3,053 ha Chunya fire, 4 June 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,037 ha in total · 6 days
  58. 247 ha Mbarali fire, 25 September 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,163 ha in total · 7 days
  59. 3,573 ha Chunya fire, September 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,819 ha in total · 4 days
  60. 5,886 ha Chunya fire, 31 July 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,024 ha in total · 8 days
  61. 2,609 ha Manyoni fire, 31 July 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 3,998 ha in total · 4 days
  62. 3,676 ha Chunya fire, 28 July 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 32,137 ha in total · 25 days
  63. 5,353 ha Chunya fire, 10 July 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,361 ha in total · 11 days
  64. 3,589 ha Chunya fire, 4 July 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,570 ha in total · 8 days
  65. 8,988 ha Chunya fire, 2 July 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 59,818 ha in total · 41 days
  66. 3,721 ha Chunya fire, June 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,726 ha in total · 6 days
  67. 58 ha Manyoni fire, June 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,323 ha in total · 11 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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