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Wildfires in Kilolo

Kilolo, Tanzania, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 51,042 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 42 % · 32 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 46 % · 34 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 46 % · 36 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 48 % · 30 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 45 % · 34 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 28° · 42 % · 41 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 28° · 40 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 29° · 43 % · 40 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

51,042
hectares burned
5.5 %
of its area
13
fires
9,303
km²

How many times has Kilolo burned?

Kilolo has burned 13 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2020, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Kilolo fire, October 2026, with 4,652 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 51,042 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 48,912 hectares, 5.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 8× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
13
fires
4
years with fire
51,042
cumulative ha
48,912
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 Kilolo

  1. 4,652 ha Kilolo fire, October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,621 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,708 ha Mufindi fire, 15 October 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 3,689 ha Kilolo fire, 17 November 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,665 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 2,449 ha Kilolo fire, 14 November 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,442 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 3,968 ha Kilolo fire, 12 November 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,940 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 3,283 ha Kilolo fire, 4 November 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,602 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 4,144 ha Kilolo fire, 3 November 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,113 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 3,351 ha Kilolo fire, 3 November 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,329 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 3,250 ha Kilombero fire, 20 October 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 4,935 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 9,639 ha Kilolo fire, October 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 9,574 ha in total · 17 days
  11. 3,149 ha Kilolo fire, October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,128 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 3,367 ha Kilolo fire, September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,345 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 2,220 ha Kilombero fire, 29 October 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 3,004 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 3,881 ha Kilolo fire, October 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,854 ha in total · 7 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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