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Wildfires in Kondoa

Kondoa, Tanzania, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 14,634 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.5% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 28).

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. Tue 27 High 29° · 29 % · 46 km/h
  2. Wed 28 High 30° · 30 % · 40 km/h
  3. Thu 29 High 31° · 27 % · 62 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Low 29° · 39 % · 33 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 70 % · 43 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 49 % · 43 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 27° · 48 % · 46 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 47 % · 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

14,634
hectares burned
2.5 %
of its area
6
fires
5,829
km²

How many times has Kondoa burned?

Kondoa has burned 6 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kondoa fire, October 2026, with 4,171 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,634 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,216 hectares, 2.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
6
fires
5
years with fire
14,634
cumulative ha
12,216
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 Kondoa

  1. 4,171 ha Kondoa fire, October 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,145 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 485 ha Babati fire, 26 September 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 4,847 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 4,078 ha Kondoa fire, August 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,189 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 3,917 ha Kondoa fire, October 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,893 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,370 ha Simanjiro fire, September 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 3,196 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 613 ha Babati fire, 11 September 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 6,416 ha in total · 6 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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