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Wildfires in Kasulu

Kasulu, Tanzania, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 33,794 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 14 Very low 27° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 25° · 68 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 25° · 70 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 25° · 73 % · 27 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 25° · 78 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 26° · 68 % · 31 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 27° · 64 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 24° · 77 % · 30 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 Kasulu: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

33,794
hectares burned
4.7 %
of its area
11
fires
7,246
km²

How many times has Kasulu burned?

Kasulu has burned 11 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Kasulu fire, August 2026, with 8,242 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 33,794 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 22,264 hectares, 3.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 5× 26
11
fires
5
years with fire
33,794
cumulative ha
22,264
distinct ha

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 Kasulu

  1. 8,242 ha Kasulu fire, August 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 8,184 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 56 ha Kibondo fire, 5 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 87,444 ha in total · 47 days
  3. 824 ha Kibondo fire, 23 July 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,308 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 3,031 ha Kasulu fire, July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,010 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 3,220 ha Kasulu fire, June 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,197 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 3,285 ha Kasulu fire, September 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,261 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 3,325 ha Kasulu fire, July 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,316 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 5 ha Kibondo fire, 14 July 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,383 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 3,006 ha Kasulu fire, June 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,019 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 5,063 ha Kasulu fire, 2 July 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,037 ha in total · 18 days
  11. 3,738 ha Kasulu fire, 1 July 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,711 ha in total · 4 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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