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Wildfires in Tunduru

Tunduru, Tanzania, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 77,104 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.2% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 5).

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. Thu 29 High 35° · 28 % · 30 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Low 31° · 42 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 50 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Low 30° · 49 % · 32 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Moderate 32° · 44 % · 27 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Moderate 33° · 35 % · 32 km/h
  7. Wed 4 High 34° · 30 % · 31 km/h
  8. Thu 5 High 35° · 26 % · 31 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

77,104
hectares burned
4.2 %
of its area
22
fires
18,532
km²

How many times has Tunduru burned?

Tunduru has burned 22 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Tunduru fire, 29 September 2026, with 3,094 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 77,104 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 73,348 hectares, 4.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 8× 25
  11. 2× 26
22
fires
8
years with fire
77,104
cumulative ha
73,348
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 Tunduru

  1. 2,576 ha Namtumbo fire, 19 October 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 3,136 ha Tunduru fire, 15 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 3,094 ha Tunduru fire, 29 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,075 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 7,866 ha Tunduru fire, 28 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,801 ha in total · 26 days
  5. 1,431 ha Liwale fire, 30 October 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 3,163 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 6,197 ha Tunduru fire, October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,168 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 106 ha Namtumbo fire, 13 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 4,051 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 4,187 ha Tunduru fire, 13 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,166 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 3,027 ha Tunduru fire, 7 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,041 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 3,578 ha Tunduru fire, 7 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,549 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 4,144 ha Tunduru fire, 6 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,115 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 3,532 ha Tunduru fire, 4 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,505 ha in total · 19 days
  13. 3,018 ha Tunduru fire, October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,004 ha in total · 20 days
  14. 8 ha Namtumbo fire, 9 October 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 4,003 ha in total · 16 days
  15. 530 ha Tunduru fire, October 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,662 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 3,635 ha Tunduru fire, September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,721 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 3,991 ha Tunduru fire, 25 October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,971 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 4,120 ha Tunduru fire, 20 October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,093 ha in total · 13 days
  19. 4,358 ha Tunduru fire, August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,337 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 5,509 ha Tunduru fire, November 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,483 ha in total · 9 days
  21. 2,210 ha Tunduru fire, September 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,374 ha in total · 10 days
  22. 4,286 ha Tunduru fire, 31 October 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,295 ha in total · 14 days
  23. 4,692 ha Tunduru fire, 10 October 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,669 ha in total · 9 days
  24. 3,585 ha Tunduru fire, September 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,569 ha in total · 4 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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