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Wildfires in Namtumbo

Namtumbo, Tanzania, has had 48 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 260,268 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 33).

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 3 provisional pages, 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. Wed 4 High 34° · 28 % · 31 km/h
  2. Thu 5 High 33° · 33 % · 38 km/h
  3. Fri 6 High 34° · 27 % · 40 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very high 34° · 24 % · 41 km/h
  5. Sun 8 High 34° · 21 % · 36 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very high 34° · 23 % · 34 km/h
  7. Tue 10 High 33° · 31 % · 33 km/h
  8. Wed 11 High 32° · 42 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Namtumbo: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

260,268
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
48
fires
21,900
km²

How many times has Namtumbo burned?

Namtumbo has burned 48 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Namtumbo fire, 21 October 2026, with 1,654 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 6× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 6× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 13× 25
  11. 9× 26
48
fires
10
years with fire
260,268
cumulative ha
21 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 Namtumbo

  1. 1,792 ha Songea fire, 22 October 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,654 ha Namtumbo fire, 21 October 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,475 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 1,302 ha Namtumbo fire, 19 October 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 3,467 ha Namtumbo fire, 16 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,448 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 5,958 ha Namtumbo fire, 15 October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,936 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 378 ha Songea fire, 15 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 17,979 ha Namtumbo fire, 15 October 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 20,851 ha in total · 22 days
  8. 9,898 ha Namtumbo fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 9,852 ha in total · 24 days
  9. 14 ha Songea fire, 4 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,211 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 11,721 ha Namtumbo fire, 30 September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 11,368 ha in total · 33 days
  11. 3,579 ha Namtumbo fire, 27 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,557 ha in total · 20 days
  12. 9,752 ha Namtumbo fire, September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,606 ha in total · 46 days
  13. 3,151 ha Namtumbo fire, 26 October 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,134 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 927 ha Liwale fire, 25 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 23,873 ha in total · 19 days
  15. 7,100 ha Namtumbo fire, 24 October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,069 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 10,336 ha Ulanga fire, October 2025 0.5% of the municipality · 26,721 ha in total · 30 days
  17. 3,282 ha Namtumbo fire, 2 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,264 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 3,544 ha Namtumbo fire, 24 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,527 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 5,082 ha Namtumbo fire, 23 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,061 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 11,354 ha Namtumbo fire, 19 September 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 11,269 ha in total · 24 days
  21. 1,210 ha Ulanga fire, 19 September 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 37,159 ha in total · 25 days
  22. 86 ha Ulanga fire, 13 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 6,983 ha in total · 9 days
  23. 3,965 ha Namtumbo fire, 13 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,051 ha in total · 15 days
  24. 3,215 ha Namtumbo fire, 8 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,200 ha in total · 22 days
  25. 26 ha Tunduru fire, 7 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,041 ha in total · 10 days
  26. 3,262 ha Namtumbo fire, October 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,248 ha in total · 11 days
  27. 19 ha Ulanga fire, November 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 11,393 ha in total · 9 days
  28. 4,785 ha Namtumbo fire, 10 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,762 ha in total · 11 days
  29. 4,015 ha Namtumbo fire, 9 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,003 ha in total · 16 days
  30. 6,188 ha Namtumbo fire, November 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,970 ha in total · 14 days
  31. 1,814 ha Ulanga fire, 5 November 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 3,014 ha in total · 18 days
  32. 7,414 ha Namtumbo fire, 13 October 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 11,263 ha in total · 26 days
  33. 3,503 ha Namtumbo fire, 13 October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,490 ha in total · 9 days
  34. 7,441 ha Namtumbo fire, September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,411 ha in total · 12 days
  35. 31,619 ha Ulanga fire, 14 September 2021 1.4% of the municipality · 83,170 ha in total · 73 days
  36. 4,715 ha Namtumbo fire, September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,691 ha in total · 7 days
  37. 3,931 ha Namtumbo fire, 26 October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,914 ha in total · 9 days
  38. 2,286 ha Namtumbo fire, 22 October 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,894 ha in total · 14 days
  39. 5,222 ha Namtumbo fire, 22 October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,193 ha in total · 12 days
  40. 3,377 ha Namtumbo fire, 24 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,366 ha in total · 9 days
  41. 15,025 ha Ulanga fire, 7 September 2019 0.7% of the municipality · 35,195 ha in total · 22 days
  42. 4,122 ha Namtumbo fire, 7 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,106 ha in total · 17 days
  43. 1,724 ha Ulanga fire, September 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 31,368 ha in total · 35 days
  44. 4,208 ha Namtumbo fire, November 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,192 ha in total · 6 days
  45. 7,708 ha Namtumbo fire, 14 September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,684 ha in total · 11 days
  46. 3,183 ha Namtumbo fire, 12 September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,172 ha in total · 10 days
  47. 3,985 ha Ulanga fire, 9 November 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 21,517 ha in total · 11 days
  48. 5,447 ha Namtumbo fire, November 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,427 ha in total · 17 days
  49. 29 ha Tunduru fire, 31 October 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 4,295 ha in total · 14 days
  50. 3,429 ha Namtumbo fire, 20 October 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,410 ha in total · 8 days
  51. 4,517 ha Namtumbo fire, 8 October 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,501 ha in total · 19 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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