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Wildfires in Sikonge

Sikonge, Tanzania, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 50,045 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.9% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 54).

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. Fri 23 High 34° · 24 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 36° · 14 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 35° · 16 % · 37 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 35° · 19 % · 43 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Extreme 35° · 20 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 34° · 28 % · 48 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 31° · 43 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 71 % · 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

50,045
hectares burned
1.9 %
of its area
15
fires
26,451
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Sikonge

  1. 3,414 ha Sikonge fire, July 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,391 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 35 ha Urambo fire, September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,691 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 4,083 ha Sikonge fire, 12 September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,109 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 4,805 ha Sikonge fire, 2 September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,775 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 5,055 ha Sikonge fire, August 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,021 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 3,549 ha Sikonge fire, July 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,527 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 77 ha Mlele fire, 19 September 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 3,150 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 0 ha Mlele fire, 24 July 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,135 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 3,358 ha Sikonge fire, October 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,334 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 4,841 ha Sikonge fire, 18 August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,808 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 4,402 ha Sikonge fire, 10 August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,370 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 3,791 ha Sikonge fire, 10 July 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,763 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 3,946 ha Sikonge fire, 10 July 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,916 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 3,955 ha Sikonge fire, 4 July 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,162 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 4,733 ha Sikonge fire, June 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,700 ha in total · 2 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).