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Wildfires in Mbinga

Mbinga, Tanzania, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 9,589 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 39).

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. Fri 23 High 34° · 18 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 33° · 22 % · 44 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 32° · 25 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 31° · 33 % · 41 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 31° · 28 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 32° · 22 % · 34 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 34° · 25 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 31° · 37 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

9,589
hectares burned
2.0 %
of its area
5
fires
4,872
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Mbinga

  1. 42 ha Nyasa fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 5,087 ha Mbinga fire, 27 September 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,057 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 2,949 ha Mbinga fire, 26 September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,160 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 236 ha Ludewa fire, 15 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,158 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,217 ha Songea fire, 24 August 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 3,433 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 100 ha Songea fire, September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 4,056 ha in total · 8 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).