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Wildfires in Nyasa

Nyasa, Tanzania, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 67,193 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 54 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 65 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 25° · 56 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 26° · 60 % · 33 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 26° · 55 % · 33 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Low 27° · 42 % · 36 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Low 28° · 44 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Moderate 27° · 38 % · 37 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

67,193
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
16
fires
3,082
km²

How many times has Nyasa burned?

Nyasa has burned 16 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mbinga fire, 26 September 2026, with 231 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 67,193 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 49,739 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 1× 26
16
fires
8
years with fire
67,193
cumulative ha
49,739
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 Nyasa

  1. 3,220 ha Nyasa fire, October 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 231 ha Mbinga fire, 26 September 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,160 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 4,333 ha Nyasa fire, 23 September 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,303 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 3,409 ha Nyasa fire, 21 September 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,383 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 3,465 ha Nyasa fire, 4 September 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,615 ha in total · 18 days
  6. 3,845 ha Nyasa fire, November 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,815 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 3,801 ha Nyasa fire, October 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,771 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 3,356 ha Nyasa fire, September 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,593 ha in total · 21 days
  9. 6,220 ha Nyasa fire, 20 October 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 6,176 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 3,101 ha Nyasa fire, 19 October 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,099 ha in total · 15 days
  11. 3,818 ha Nyasa fire, 12 October 2018 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,788 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 3,289 ha Nyasa fire, 11 October 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,265 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 4,570 ha Nyasa fire, September 2018 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 4,535 ha in total · 16 days
  14. 3,186 ha Nyasa fire, 7 October 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,162 ha in total · 14 days
  15. 13,976 ha Nyasa fire, 2 October 2017 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 13,866 ha in total · 28 days
  16. 3,136 ha Nyasa fire, 10 October 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,111 ha in total · 20 days
  17. 3,457 ha Nyasa fire, 6 October 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,430 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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