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Wildfires in Makete

Makete, Tanzania, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 94,109 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 23% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 10 Moderate 22° · 39 % · 43 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Low 22° · 43 % · 23 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 21° · 70 % · 23 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very low 19° · 66 % · 28 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 20° · 75 % · 21 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 19° · 72 % · 26 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 18° · 77 % · 33 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 20° · 79 % · 35 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 Makete: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

94,109
hectares burned
23 %
of its area
19
fires
4,022
km²

How many times has Makete burned?

Makete has burned 19 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Makete fire, 22 October 2026, with 6,263 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 94,109 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 71,232 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 5× 26
19
fires
8
years with fire
94,109
cumulative ha
71,232
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 Makete

  1. 6,263 ha Makete fire, 22 October 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 6,222 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 3,998 ha Makete fire, 21 October 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,155 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 1,340 ha Makete fire, 20 October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,503 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 4,755 ha Makete fire, 5 October 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,724 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 5,115 ha Makete fire, June 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 5,085 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 7,162 ha Makete fire, 31 October 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 7,113 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 5,664 ha Makete fire, 28 October 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 7,077 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 3,540 ha Makete fire, 26 October 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,517 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 4,840 ha Makete fire, September 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,809 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 3,673 ha Makete fire, October 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,648 ha in total · 17 days
  11. 6,693 ha Makete fire, 4 November 2021 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 8,003 ha in total · 14 days
  12. 3,022 ha Makete fire, 1 November 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,031 ha in total · 10 days
  13. 404 ha Wanging'ombe fire, October 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 3,207 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 8,266 ha Makete fire, November 2019 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 8,210 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 6,631 ha Makete fire, October 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 11,660 ha in total · 19 days
  16. 1,586 ha Makete fire, 13 November 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,447 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 4,726 ha Makete fire, 10 November 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,694 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 9,103 ha Makete fire, October 2016 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 9,042 ha in total · 13 days
  19. 7,327 ha Njombe Urban fire, 8 October 2016 1.8% 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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