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Wildfires in Njombe

Njombe, Tanzania, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 100,094 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 49 % · 29 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Low 26° · 42 % · 33 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 61 % · 36 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 22° · 74 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 22° · 79 % · 35 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 24° · 66 % · 36 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 24° · 58 % · 37 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 25° · 58 % · 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

100,094
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
22
fires
3,475
km²

How many times has Njombe burned?

Njombe has burned 22 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Njombe fire, October 2026, with 1,151 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 100,094 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 70,423 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 6× 25
  11. 1× 26
22
fires
9
years with fire
100,094
cumulative ha
70,423
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 Njombe

  1. 1,151 ha Njombe fire, October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,249 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 602 ha Songea fire, 20 October 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 2,391 ha Njombe fire, November 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,093 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,234 ha Njombe Urban fire, October 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 4,562 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 1,017 ha Njombe fire, October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,839 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 171 ha Kilombero fire, 14 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,803 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 10,138 ha Njombe fire, 28 September 2025 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 10,070 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 7,925 ha Njombe fire, 7 September 2025 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 7,875 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 3,144 ha Njombe fire, October 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,593 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 13,450 ha Kilombero fire, 3 November 2021 3.9% of the municipality · 22,476 ha in total · 24 days
  11. 1 ha Kilombero fire, 2 November 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 10,127 ha in total · 20 days
  12. 4,240 ha Njombe fire, October 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,216 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 2,017 ha Njombe fire, 4 October 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,404 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 789 ha Kilombero fire, October 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 5,656 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 10,363 ha Njombe fire, 1 October 2020 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 10,603 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 7,294 ha Njombe fire, October 2019 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 7,245 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 6 ha Songea fire, 28 October 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 3,548 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 3,283 ha Njombe fire, November 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,262 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 4,306 ha Njombe fire, 21 October 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,533 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 3,165 ha Njombe fire, 20 October 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,196 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 10,655 ha Njombe fire, November 2016 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 10,583 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 4,026 ha Njombe fire, October 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,001 ha in total · 12 days
  23. 9,327 ha Njombe Urban fire, 14 October 2016 2.7% of the municipality · 10,365 ha in total · 15 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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