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Wildfires in Meatu

Meatu, Tanzania, has had 29 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 147,893 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 46).

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 Very high 32° · 25 % · 40 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very high 35° · 22 % · 37 km/h
  3. Wed 28 High 33° · 30 % · 35 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Moderate 33° · 28 % · 32 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 45 % · 37 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 46 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 39 % · 45 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Moderate 31° · 36 % · 26 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

147,893
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
29
fires
9,077
km²

How many times has Meatu burned?

Meatu has burned 29 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Meatu fire, October 2026, with 4,465 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 147,893 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 113,195 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 7× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 5× 26
29
fires
8
years with fire
147,893
cumulative ha
113,195
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 Meatu

  1. 4,465 ha Meatu fire, October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,437 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 4,135 ha Meatu fire, 7 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,108 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 5,894 ha Meatu fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,858 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 3,980 ha Meatu fire, July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,894 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 3,192 ha Meatu fire, June 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,172 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 6,273 ha Meatu fire, 25 September 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,233 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 7,281 ha Meatu fire, 21 September 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 7,235 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 3,246 ha Meatu fire, 17 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,225 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 7,352 ha Meatu fire, July 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 7,306 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 3,388 ha Meatu fire, August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,367 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 4,126 ha Meatu fire, June 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,100 ha in total · 17 days
  12. 4,697 ha Meatu fire, 20 July 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,668 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 4,849 ha Meatu fire, 20 July 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,819 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 7,434 ha Meatu fire, 27 August 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 7,387 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 6,556 ha Meatu fire, 24 August 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,515 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 6,895 ha Meatu fire, 21 August 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,850 ha in total · 10 days
  17. 5,705 ha Meatu fire, July 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,669 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 108 ha Itilima fire, 17 August 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,173 ha in total · 11 days
  19. 117 ha Itilima fire, 15 August 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,571 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 4,695 ha Meatu fire, 22 July 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,665 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 3,305 ha Meatu fire, 18 July 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,284 ha in total · 9 days
  22. 5,558 ha Meatu fire, 8 July 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,522 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 3,161 ha Meatu fire, 24 June 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,140 ha in total · 7 days
  24. 15,620 ha Meatu fire, 20 June 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 15,521 ha in total · 31 days
  25. 3,532 ha Meatu fire, July 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,510 ha in total · 6 days
  26. 3,308 ha Meatu fire, October 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,286 ha in total · 11 days
  27. 6,288 ha Meatu fire, 22 July 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,248 ha in total · 12 days
  28. 5,232 ha Meatu fire, 5 July 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,224 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 7,502 ha Meatu fire, June 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 7,455 ha in total · 9 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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