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Wildfires in Nkasi

Nkasi, Tanzania, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 59,564 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Sat 7 Very low 26° · 52 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Very low 27° · 43 % · 32 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 28° · 47 % · 27 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 28° · 47 % · 33 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 27° · 57 % · 34 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 23° · 69 % · 35 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 23° · 70 % · 32 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 24° · 67 % · 37 km/h
  9. Sun 15 Very low 24° · 74 % · 28 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 Nkasi: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

59,564
hectares burned
6.0 %
of its area
14
fires
9,888
km²

How many times has Nkasi burned?

Nkasi has burned 14 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Nkasi fire, October 2026, with 3,307 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 59,564 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 52,830 hectares, 5.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 6× 26
14
fires
6
years with fire
59,564
cumulative ha
52,830
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 Nkasi

  1. 3,307 ha Nkasi fire, October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,529 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 9,795 ha Nkasi fire, 19 August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 9,740 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 9,033 ha Nkasi fire, 29 July 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 8,932 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 8,312 ha Nkasi fire, July 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 8,184 ha in total · 24 days
  5. 3,266 ha Nkasi fire, 23 May 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,271 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 3,637 ha Nkasi fire, 19 May 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,617 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 3,214 ha Nkasi fire, July 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,196 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 3,192 ha Nkasi fire, July 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,176 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 19 ha Mpanda fire, 4 July 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 11,417 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 3,069 ha Nkasi fire, 23 July 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,049 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 558 ha Mpanda fire, July 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 4,274 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 3,142 ha Nkasi fire, 13 July 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,126 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 4,601 ha Nkasi fire, July 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,577 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 4,419 ha Nkasi fire, August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,401 ha in total · 9 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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