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Wildfires in Ludewa

Ludewa, Tanzania, has had 21 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 64,533 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 26).

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. Mon 26 Moderate 29° · 40 % · 45 km/h
  2. Tue 27 High 29° · 31 % · 43 km/h
  3. Wed 28 High 31° · 28 % · 31 km/h
  4. Thu 29 High 32° · 24 % · 35 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 38 % · 35 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 69 % · 32 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 26° · 71 % · 37 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 27° · 51 % · 39 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

64,533
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
21
fires
5,990
km²

How many times has Ludewa burned?

Ludewa has burned 21 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Makete fire, 20 October 2026, with 2,050 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 64,533 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 56,353 hectares, 9.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6. 5× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 6× 25
  11. 2× 26
21
fires
6
years with fire
64,533
cumulative ha
56,353
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 Ludewa

  1. 2,050 ha Makete fire, 20 October 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 3,503 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 7,259 ha Ludewa fire, October 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 7,839 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 1,463 ha Makete fire, 28 October 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 7,077 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 5,231 ha Ludewa fire, 23 October 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,198 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 4,296 ha Ludewa fire, 17 October 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,267 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 3,047 ha Ludewa fire, 13 October 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,026 ha in total · 21 days
  7. 2,943 ha Ludewa fire, 12 October 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,158 ha in total · 18 days
  8. 4,303 ha Ludewa fire, 9 October 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 9,266 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 773 ha Makete fire, 4 November 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 8,003 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 5,401 ha Ludewa fire, 2 November 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,367 ha in total · 14 days
  11. 3,623 ha Ludewa fire, 2 November 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,623 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 31 ha Makete fire, 1 November 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,031 ha in total · 10 days
  13. 3,954 ha Ludewa fire, October 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,929 ha in total · 19 days
  14. 3,137 ha Ludewa fire, 23 October 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,117 ha in total · 15 days
  15. 5,085 ha Makete fire, October 2019 0.8% of the municipality · 11,660 ha in total · 19 days
  16. 3,051 ha Ludewa fire, 20 October 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,034 ha in total · 17 days
  17. 2,862 ha Ludewa fire, November 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,378 ha in total · 20 days
  18. 1,855 ha Makete fire, 13 November 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 3,447 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 3,443 ha Ludewa fire, October 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,422 ha in total · 16 days
  20. 274 ha Njombe Urban fire, 10 October 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,123 ha in total · 14 days
  21. 450 ha Njombe Urban fire, 8 October 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 9,720 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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