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Wildfires in Mufindi

Mufindi, Tanzania, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 30,887 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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. Thu 29 High 26° · 29 % · 41 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 23° · 50 % · 37 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 22° · 63 % · 35 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 22° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 23° · 53 % · 31 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 23° · 59 % · 37 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 23° · 45 % · 40 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Low 24° · 41 % · 41 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

30,887
hectares burned
4.1 %
of its area
9
fires
7,562
km²

How many times has Mufindi burned?

Mufindi has burned 9 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Mufindi fire, October 2025, with 4,011 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 30,887 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 28,363 hectares, 3.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
9
fires
5
years with fire
30,887
cumulative ha
28,363
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 Mufindi

  1. 2,212 ha Mufindi fire, October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 4,011 ha Mufindi fire, October 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,985 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 4,010 ha Mufindi fire, November 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,986 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 3,040 ha Mufindi fire, November 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,018 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 6,775 ha Kilombero fire, 3 November 2021 0.9% of the municipality · 14,870 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 3,921 ha Mufindi fire, December 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,895 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 302 ha Njombe fire, 1 October 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 10,603 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 3,051 ha Mufindi fire, 25 November 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,029 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 4,214 ha Mufindi fire, 23 November 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,186 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 1,562 ha Kilombero fire, November 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 3,726 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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