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Wildfires in Kahama

Kahama, Tanzania, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2026: 498 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.1% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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. Thu 5 Low 31° · 34 % · 35 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Low 30° · 41 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 29° · 46 % · 36 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 47 % · 25 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 28° · 54 % · 38 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 26° · 62 % · 32 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 26° · 68 % · 32 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 26° · 67 % · 32 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Kahama: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

498
hectares burned
0.1 %
of its area
1
fires
6,801
km²

How many times has Kahama burned?

Kahama has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Kaliua fire, 28 July 2026, with 498 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
498
cumulative ha
28 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 Kahama

  1. 498 ha Kaliua fire, 28 July 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,516 ha in total · 21 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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