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Wildfires in Rufiji

Rufiji, Tanzania, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 28,046 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.2% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 25).

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 34° · 41 % · 29 km/h
  2. Fri 30 High 35° · 41 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Moderate 34° · 49 % · 40 km/h
  4. Sun 1 High 34° · 43 % · 43 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Low 34° · 52 % · 35 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Low 34° · 52 % · 32 km/h
  7. Wed 4 High 35° · 37 % · 37 km/h
  8. Thu 5 High 35° · 31 % · 40 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

28,046
hectares burned
2.2 %
of its area
11
fires
12,822
km²

How many times has Rufiji burned?

Rufiji has burned 11 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Morogoro fire, 14 August 2026, with 1,350 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 28,046 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 25,208 hectares, 2.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
11
fires
6
years with fire
28,046
cumulative ha
25,208
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 Rufiji

  1. 462 ha Kilwa fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,350 ha Morogoro fire, 14 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,455 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 5,240 ha Rufiji fire, September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,051 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 2,166 ha Rufiji fire, October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,408 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 102 ha Morogoro fire, September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,198 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 5,648 ha Rufiji fire, August 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,630 ha in total · 18 days
  7. 1,611 ha Morogoro fire, 7 October 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 3,731 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 6,502 ha Rufiji fire, September 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,464 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 206 ha Morogoro fire, 22 September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 5,088 ha in total · 15 days
  10. 1,406 ha Morogoro fire, 17 September 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 12,370 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 659 ha Liwale fire, September 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 4,357 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 3,157 ha Rufiji fire, August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,139 ha in total · 3 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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