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Wildfires in Bindura

Bindura, Zimbabwe, has had 47 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 58,072 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 34).

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 High 37° · 18 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 33° · 29 % · 42 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 31° · 33 % · 40 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 32° · 22 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 34° · 20 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 35° · 20 % · 35 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 34° · 20 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 30° · 22 % · 27 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

58,072
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
47
fires
2,255
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Bindura

  1. 1,250 ha Bindura fire, October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,245 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 684 ha Shamva fire, 13 October 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 2,449 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 1,008 ha Bindura fire, 29 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,002 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,164 ha Bindura fire, 24 September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,159 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 854 ha Bindura fire, 20 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,245 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 1,274 ha Bindura fire, 13 September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,267 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 497 ha Mazowe fire, 17 August 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 1,336 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 789 ha Mazowe fire, 5 August 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 1,054 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,059 ha Bindura fire, July 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,054 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 853 ha Bindura fire, 22 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,168 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 1,848 ha Bindura fire, 18 September 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,841 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 1,052 ha Bindura fire, 9 September 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,045 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 1,059 ha Bindura fire, August 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,054 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 1,491 ha Bindura fire, September 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,082 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 1,118 ha Bindura fire, 20 August 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,113 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 1,259 ha Bindura fire, 19 August 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,253 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 1,453 ha Bindura fire, 8 October 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,567 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 1,405 ha Bindura fire, 8 October 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,399 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 1,229 ha Bindura fire, 7 October 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,222 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 1,267 ha Goromonzi fire, October 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 1,435 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 1,022 ha Bindura fire, 3 October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,016 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 5,976 ha Bindura fire, 2 October 2022 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 6,034 ha in total · 11 days
  23. 881 ha Shamva fire, 28 September 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 1,872 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 1,153 ha Bindura fire, 13 September 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,147 ha in total · 1 day
  25. 854 ha Bindura fire, 13 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,241 ha in total · 1 day
  26. 33 ha Mazowe fire, August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,203 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 218 ha Mount Darwin fire, 20 September 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 1,095 ha in total · 5 days
  28. 2,044 ha Bindura fire, September 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,034 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 1,014 ha Bindura fire, August 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,032 ha in total · 4 days
  30. 449 ha Goromonzi fire, August 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 1,162 ha in total · 1 day
  31. 1,377 ha Bindura fire, 19 September 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,532 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 1,173 ha Bindura fire, 18 September 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,165 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 1,369 ha Bindura fire, 13 September 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,362 ha in total · 3 days
  34. 1,021 ha Bindura fire, 10 September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,015 ha in total · 6 days
  35. 1,320 ha Bindura fire, 8 September 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,313 ha in total · 3 days
  36. 1,205 ha Bindura fire, 6 September 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,206 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 1,301 ha Bindura fire, 4 September 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,295 ha in total · 3 days
  38. 1,260 ha Bindura fire, September 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,253 ha in total · 6 days
  39. 453 ha Shamva fire, 11 September 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 1,960 ha in total · 6 days
  40. 1,301 ha Bindura fire, September 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,344 ha in total · 4 days
  41. 1,380 ha Bindura fire, 13 October 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,373 ha in total · 5 days
  42. 1,218 ha Bindura fire, 7 October 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,212 ha in total · 3 days
  43. 2,285 ha Bindura fire, 6 October 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,273 ha in total · 5 days
  44. 1,058 ha Bindura fire, 23 September 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,053 ha in total · 4 days
  45. 1,147 ha Bindura fire, 8 September 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,140 ha in total · 3 days
  46. 1,821 ha Bindura fire, 6 September 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,811 ha in total · 5 days
  47. 1,126 ha Bindura fire, August 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,119 ha in total · 3 days

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).