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Wildfires in Itilima

Itilima, Tanzania, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 95,612 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 43).

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 33° · 16 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 35° · 12 % · 44 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 33° · 16 % · 39 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 33° · 20 % · 48 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 32° · 24 % · 44 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 49 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 56 % · 52 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 67 % · 44 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

95,612
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
20
fires
4,722
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Itilima

  1. 704 ha Bariadi fire, 1 October 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 4,225 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,952 ha Meatu fire, July 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 5,894 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 6,658 ha Itilima fire, June 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 6,990 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 6,086 ha Itilima fire, December 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 6,285 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 19,032 ha Itilima fire, August 2025 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 18,907 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 773 ha Bariadi fire, 28 July 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 4,212 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 4,516 ha Itilima fire, June 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,801 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 3,686 ha Itilima fire, 26 August 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,662 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 5,518 ha Itilima fire, 25 August 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,482 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 4,244 ha Itilima fire, July 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,217 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 1,884 ha Bariadi fire, September 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 13,929 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 1,622 ha Itilima fire, 21 August 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,173 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 3,478 ha Itilima fire, 15 August 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,571 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 3,868 ha Itilima fire, July 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,154 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 15,377 ha Itilima fire, July 2019 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 15,277 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 746 ha Bariadi fire, 21 September 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 3,001 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 4,222 ha Itilima fire, 11 July 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,194 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 6,777 ha Itilima fire, 6 July 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 12,451 ha in total · 13 days
  19. 25 ha Meatu fire, 5 July 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 5,224 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 4,441 ha Bariadi fire, 1 July 2016 0.9% of the municipality · 9,106 ha in total · 13 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).