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Wildfires in Mtwara

Mtwara, Tanzania, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 28,029 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.5% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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. Wed 28 Moderate 32° · 46 % · 34 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Moderate 32° · 50 % · 34 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Moderate 33° · 42 % · 32 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Moderate 31° · 50 % · 38 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Moderate 32° · 45 % · 35 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Moderate 33° · 44 % · 38 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Moderate 33° · 43 % · 37 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Moderate 33° · 51 % · 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

28,029
hectares burned
7.5 %
of its area
2
fires
3,715
km²

How many times has Mtwara burned?

Mtwara has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mtwara fire, October 2026, with 3,502 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
28,029
cumulative ha
14 Oct 2026
most recent

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 Mtwara

  1. 3,502 ha Mtwara fire, October 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,241 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 24,527 ha Mtwara fire, November 2025 where it started 6.6% of the municipality · 24,375 ha in total · 20 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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