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Wildfires in Beitbridge

Beitbridge, Zimbabwe, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 39,795 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.1% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 29).

Only fires of 1,000 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 Extreme 32° · 19 % · 53 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 28° · 49 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 34° · 29 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 37° · 15 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 39° · 14 % · 49 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 32° · 25 % · 67 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 30° · 25 % · 48 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 28° · 33 % · 42 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

39,795
hectares burned
3.1 %
of its area
19
fires
12,788
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Beitbridge

  1. 2,362 ha Beitbridge fire, November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,355 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 223 ha Mwenezi fire, 19 October 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,068 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 3,471 ha Beitbridge fire, 12 October 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,459 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 2,492 ha Beitbridge fire, 10 October 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,481 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 4,013 ha Beitbridge fire, 26 September 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,000 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 2,535 ha Beitbridge fire, 19 September 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,567 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1,942 ha Beitbridge fire, 17 September 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,937 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 383 ha Gwanda fire, October 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,072 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 2,454 ha Beitbridge fire, 26 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,446 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 6 ha Beitbridge Urban fire, September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,364 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 3,682 ha Beitbridge fire, 25 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,667 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 2,859 ha Beitbridge fire, 17 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,850 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 3,741 ha Beitbridge fire, 17 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,725 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 1,849 ha Beitbridge fire, 16 September 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,843 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 1,010 ha Beitbridge fire, 5 September 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,006 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 1,564 ha Beitbridge fire, August 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,553 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 2,638 ha Beitbridge fire, 2 November 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,628 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 1,323 ha Beitbridge fire, 1 November 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,318 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 1,248 ha Beitbridge fire, October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,244 ha in total · 1 day

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT www.zimstat.co.zw) Central Statistics Office, OCHA ROSEA (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).