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Wildfires in Songwe

Songwe, Tanzania, has had 50 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 180,416 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 39 % · 28 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 45 % · 41 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 44 % · 23 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Low 32° · 26 % · 34 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Moderate 32° · 27 % · 32 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Moderate 33° · 21 % · 32 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Moderate 34° · 21 % · 27 km/h
  8. Mon 9 High 33° · 28 % · 30 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

180,416
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
50
fires
11,235
km²

How many times has Songwe burned?

Songwe has burned 50 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Songwe fire, 7 September 2026, with 3,891 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 7× 16
  2. 7× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 13× 26
50
fires
10
years with fire
180,416
cumulative ha
7 Sept 2026
most recent

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 Songwe

  1. 3,891 ha Songwe fire, 7 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,870 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 5,183 ha Songwe fire, 5 September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,153 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 3,335 ha Songwe fire, 3 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,314 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 3,018 ha Songwe fire, 1 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,000 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 5,989 ha Songwe fire, 30 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,955 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 13,918 ha Songwe fire, 29 August 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 13,937 ha in total · 16 days
  7. 3,275 ha Songwe fire, 25 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,256 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 3,377 ha Songwe fire, 25 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,360 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 3,303 ha Songwe fire, 22 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,283 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 3,365 ha Songwe fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,347 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 3,500 ha Songwe fire, 8 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,482 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 4,001 ha Songwe fire, 1 July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,981 ha in total · 10 days
  13. 3,567 ha Songwe fire, June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,548 ha in total · 13 days
  14. 3,677 ha Songwe fire, September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,656 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 5,266 ha Songwe fire, September 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,560 ha in total · 14 days
  16. 2,268 ha Songwe fire, 18 August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,920 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 4,526 ha Songwe fire, 18 August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,499 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 3,237 ha Songwe fire, 5 August 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,220 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 5,624 ha Songwe fire, September 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,637 ha in total · 12 days
  20. 475 ha Mlele fire, 8 October 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 7,669 ha in total · 7 days
  21. 4,491 ha Songwe fire, September 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,463 ha in total · 9 days
  22. 19 ha Mlele fire, 31 July 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 8,840 ha in total · 12 days
  23. 3,153 ha Songwe fire, July 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,199 ha in total · 9 days
  24. 3,377 ha Songwe fire, October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,357 ha in total · 8 days
  25. 978 ha Mlele fire, 18 September 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 3,708 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 4,366 ha Songwe fire, 11 September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,338 ha in total · 7 days
  27. 3,519 ha Songwe fire, 3 September 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,498 ha in total · 8 days
  28. 95 ha Mlele fire, 4 August 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 9,467 ha in total · 17 days
  29. 3,261 ha Songwe fire, September 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,240 ha in total · 7 days
  30. 7,069 ha Songwe fire, August 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,029 ha in total · 14 days
  31. 1,099 ha Mlele fire, 1 August 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 8,692 ha in total · 8 days
  32. 3,201 ha Songwe fire, 23 July 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,182 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 4,570 ha Songwe fire, 13 July 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,548 ha in total · 15 days
  34. 973 ha Mlele fire, 16 August 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 3,102 ha in total · 11 days
  35. 790 ha Chunya fire, 11 August 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 3,852 ha in total · 10 days
  36. 5,323 ha Songwe fire, August 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,296 ha in total · 15 days
  37. 5,116 ha Songwe fire, September 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,094 ha in total · 16 days
  38. 1,073 ha Mlele fire, 11 September 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 4,998 ha in total · 15 days
  39. 4,162 ha Songwe fire, August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,138 ha in total · 13 days
  40. 3,226 ha Songwe fire, July 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,210 ha in total · 11 days
  41. 3,667 ha Songwe fire, 26 June 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,671 ha in total · 7 days
  42. 554 ha Songwe fire, 22 June 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,574 ha in total · 12 days
  43. 8,470 ha Songwe fire, 19 June 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 8,425 ha in total · 14 days
  44. 4,455 ha Songwe fire, October 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,511 ha in total · 9 days
  45. 3,290 ha Songwe fire, 18 August 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,270 ha in total · 6 days
  46. 3,916 ha Mlele fire, 8 August 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 50,151 ha in total · 51 days
  47. 5,095 ha Songwe fire, 2 August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,067 ha in total · 9 days
  48. 3,020 ha Songwe fire, 1 August 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,001 ha in total · 5 days
  49. 114 ha Mlele fire, 28 June 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 34,561 ha in total · 25 days
  50. 3,181 ha Songwe fire, June 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,275 ha in total · 5 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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