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Wildfires in Morogoro

Morogoro, Tanzania, has had 31 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 136,140 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 Very low 28° · 42 % · 33 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 28° · 43 % · 34 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 29° · 48 % · 35 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Low 30° · 40 % · 36 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 45 % · 36 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 68 % · 35 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 26° · 71 % · 31 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 74 % · 30 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

136,140
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
31
fires
12,544
km²

How many times has Morogoro burned?

Morogoro has burned 31 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Morogoro fire, October 2026, with 3,271 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 136,140 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 106,576 hectares, 8.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 8× 20
  6. 5× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 6× 25
  11. 4× 26
31
fires
8
years with fire
136,140
cumulative ha
106,576
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 Morogoro

  1. 3,271 ha Morogoro fire, October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,250 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 3,142 ha Morogoro fire, September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,116 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,130 ha Morogoro fire, 14 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,455 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 3,742 ha Morogoro fire, 10 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,714 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 3,497 ha Morogoro fire, November 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,470 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 3,072 ha Morogoro fire, 17 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,050 ha in total · 23 days
  7. 3,320 ha Morogoro fire, 17 October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,301 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 1,867 ha Mvomero fire, October 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 3,210 ha in total · 28 days
  9. 2,401 ha Kisarawe fire, September 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 9,785 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 5,031 ha Morogoro fire, September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,993 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 3,937 ha Morogoro fire, July 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,907 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 3,122 ha Morogoro fire, September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,198 ha in total · 10 days
  13. 1,557 ha Morogoro fire, November 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 4,183 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 9,211 ha Kilosa fire, 1 November 2021 0.7% of the municipality · 12,730 ha in total · 22 days
  15. 1,302 ha Kilosa fire, 1 November 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 3,002 ha in total · 23 days
  16. 3,626 ha Morogoro fire, September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,597 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 3,318 ha Morogoro fire, August 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,291 ha in total · 14 days
  18. 2,146 ha Morogoro fire, 7 October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,731 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 2,621 ha Kilosa fire, 6 October 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 5,214 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 5,459 ha Morogoro fire, 1 October 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,417 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 15,826 ha Morogoro fire, 26 September 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 15,700 ha in total · 17 days
  22. 4,923 ha Morogoro fire, 22 September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,088 ha in total · 15 days
  23. 11,058 ha Morogoro fire, 17 September 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 12,370 ha in total · 10 days
  24. 4,813 ha Morogoro fire, 25 July 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,774 ha in total · 6 days
  25. 3,696 ha Morogoro fire, 16 July 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,669 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 3,032 ha Morogoro fire, October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,021 ha in total · 2 days
  27. 3,504 ha Morogoro fire, September 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,475 ha in total · 6 days
  28. 3,869 ha Morogoro fire, 15 October 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,927 ha in total · 10 days
  29. 10,715 ha Morogoro fire, 12 October 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 10,633 ha in total · 19 days
  30. 4,507 ha Morogoro fire, 10 October 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 9,607 ha in total · 21 days
  31. 2,426 ha Mvomero fire, October 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 4,299 ha in total · 14 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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