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Wildfires in Songea

Songea, Tanzania, has had 26 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 141,902 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).

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 2 provisional pages, 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 High 32° · 29 % · 36 km/h
  2. Thu 29 High 34° · 22 % · 37 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Low 32° · 40 % · 48 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 64 % · 23 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 61 % · 35 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 52 % · 32 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Low 31° · 41 % · 32 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Moderate 32° · 33 % · 32 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

141,902
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
26
fires
14,135
km²

How many times has Songea burned?

Songea has burned 26 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Songea fire, 13 October 2026, with 7,502 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 141,902 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 122,993 hectares, 8.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 7× 25
  11. 5× 26
26
fires
8
years with fire
141,902
cumulative ha
122,993
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 Songea

  1. 2,688 ha Songea fire, 15 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 0 ha Nyasa fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 7,502 ha Songea fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,466 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 3,221 ha Songea fire, 4 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,211 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 5,774 ha Songea fire, September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,729 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 5,210 ha Songea fire, 30 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,175 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 6,122 ha Songea fire, 24 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,080 ha in total · 19 days
  8. 3,171 ha Njombe Urban fire, October 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 4,562 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 4,362 ha Songea fire, October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,346 ha in total · 19 days
  10. 1,033 ha Kilombero fire, 14 October 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 3,803 ha in total · 19 days
  11. 3,159 ha Songea fire, September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,139 ha in total · 19 days
  12. 9,927 ha Songea fire, 22 August 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 9,861 ha in total · 24 days
  13. 3,418 ha Songea fire, 19 August 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,394 ha in total · 19 days
  14. 2,240 ha Songea fire, 17 August 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,433 ha in total · 20 days
  15. 3,379 ha Songea fire, September 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,359 ha in total · 13 days
  16. 6,773 ha Songea fire, November 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,750 ha in total · 17 days
  17. 3,850 ha Songea fire, September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,835 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 15,543 ha Songea fire, October 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 15,480 ha in total · 12 days
  19. 3,539 ha Songea fire, September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,523 ha in total · 18 days
  20. 3,555 ha Songea fire, 28 October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,548 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 3,105 ha Songea fire, 19 October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,092 ha in total · 14 days
  22. 6,013 ha Songea fire, 19 October 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,526 ha in total · 20 days
  23. 535 ha Ludewa fire, November 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,378 ha in total · 20 days
  24. 22,243 ha Songea fire, October 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 22,154 ha in total · 16 days
  25. 3,984 ha Songea fire, September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,056 ha in total · 15 days
  26. 6,824 ha Songea fire, 22 October 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,797 ha in total · 7 days
  27. 4,202 ha Songea fire, 14 October 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,184 ha in total · 15 days
  28. 3,220 ha Songea fire, 13 October 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,205 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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