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Wildfires in Uvinza

Uvinza, Tanzania, has had 27 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 172,632 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 43 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 52 % · 32 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 25° · 65 % · 29 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 26° · 62 % · 37 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 50 % · 35 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 47 % · 44 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Low 29° · 39 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Low 29° · 39 % · 37 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

172,632
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
27
fires
10,119
km²

How many times has Uvinza burned?

Uvinza has burned 27 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Uvinza fire, 7 September 2026, with 3,597 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 172,632 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 81,342 hectares, 8.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 8× 26
27
fires
9
years with fire
172,632
cumulative ha
81,342
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 Uvinza

  1. 3,597 ha Uvinza fire, 7 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,571 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 4,337 ha Uvinza fire, 6 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,375 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 5,602 ha Uvinza fire, 2 September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,559 ha in total · 22 days
  4. 5,806 ha Uvinza fire, 14 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,763 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 3,602 ha Uvinza fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,576 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 4,192 ha Uvinza fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,160 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 7,316 ha Uvinza fire, 4 August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 7,262 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 3,572 ha Uvinza fire, July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,545 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 23,841 ha Uvinza fire, August 2025 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 23,667 ha in total · 17 days
  10. 3,918 ha Uvinza fire, July 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,890 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 3,872 ha Uvinza fire, September 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,843 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 4,100 ha Uvinza fire, 12 August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,069 ha in total · 17 days
  13. 6,382 ha Uvinza fire, 5 August 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,335 ha in total · 16 days
  14. 18,101 ha Uvinza fire, October 2022 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 17,964 ha in total · 15 days
  15. 3,204 ha Uvinza fire, September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,181 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 3,578 ha Uvinza fire, 25 August 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,550 ha in total · 13 days
  17. 3,034 ha Uvinza fire, 22 August 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,010 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 10,594 ha Uvinza fire, September 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 10,515 ha in total · 13 days
  19. 4,245 ha Uvinza fire, 15 August 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,212 ha in total · 9 days
  20. 5,098 ha Uvinza fire, 9 August 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,061 ha in total · 13 days
  21. 3,313 ha Uvinza fire, July 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,288 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 10,591 ha Uvinza fire, August 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 10,514 ha in total · 17 days
  23. 3,194 ha Uvinza fire, July 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,171 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 10,001 ha Uvinza fire, August 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 9,926 ha in total · 16 days
  25. 6,377 ha Uvinza fire, 16 August 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,328 ha in total · 13 days
  26. 3,274 ha Uvinza fire, 1 August 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,249 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 7,891 ha Uvinza fire, 1 August 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 7,833 ha in total · 11 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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