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Wildfires in Bubi

Bubi, Zimbabwe, has had 57 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 99,499 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 46).

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 38° · 13 % · 49 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 33° · 29 % · 46 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 34° · 21 % · 32 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 34° · 15 % · 29 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Extreme 35° · 15 % · 47 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 33° · 24 % · 41 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 34° · 18 % · 44 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Extreme 32° · 19 % · 44 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

99,499
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
57
fires
6,109
km²

How many times has Bubi burned?

Bubi has burned 57 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Bubi fire, 16 October 2026, with 3,563 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 13× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 11× 22
  8. 6× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 9× 26
57
fires
11
years with fire
99,499
cumulative ha
16 Oct 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 1,000 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 Zimbabwe →

Fires that entered Bubi

  1. 3,563 ha Bubi fire, 16 October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,741 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,747 ha Bubi fire, 15 October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,740 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 180 ha Lupane fire, 14 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,401 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 1,167 ha Bubi fire, 9 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,163 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 3,387 ha Bubi fire, 26 September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,709 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,100 ha Bubi fire, 25 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,096 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 880 ha Bubi fire, 16 September 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,127 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,421 ha Bubi fire, 17 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,414 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,782 ha Bubi fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,768 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 1,822 ha Bubi fire, September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,816 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 1,116 ha Bubi fire, August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,110 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 3,978 ha Bubi fire, July 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,302 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 1,976 ha Bubi fire, 27 October 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,965 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 1,385 ha Bubi fire, 9 October 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,378 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 1,663 ha Bubi fire, 5 October 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,651 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 3,007 ha Bubi fire, September 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,995 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 79 ha Lupane fire, 7 September 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,040 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 1,481 ha Bubi fire, August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,472 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 2,217 ha Lupane fire, 10 October 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 16,870 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 3,002 ha Bubi fire, 9 October 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,988 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 3,895 ha Bubi fire, 4 October 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,878 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 1,376 ha Bubi fire, 2 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,369 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 748 ha Lupane fire, 2 October 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 6,552 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 1,042 ha Bubi fire, 30 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,087 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 4,044 ha Bubi fire, 17 September 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,028 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 1,630 ha Bubi fire, 17 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,621 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 1,655 ha Bubi fire, 10 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,649 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 161 ha Insiza fire, 27 August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,341 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 1,204 ha Bubi fire, August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,198 ha in total · 2 days
  30. 2,821 ha Bubi fire, 16 October 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,026 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 260 ha Insiza fire, October 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 5,914 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 1,108 ha Bubi fire, 12 October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,100 ha in total · 4 days
  33. 2,799 ha Bubi fire, August 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,150 ha in total · 6 days
  34. 909 ha Bubi fire, November 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,071 ha in total · 3 days
  35. 414 ha Lupane fire, 20 October 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,900 ha in total · 4 days
  36. 6,238 ha Bubi fire, October 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 9,221 ha in total · 6 days
  37. 1,365 ha Bubi fire, 30 October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,360 ha in total · 3 days
  38. 1,363 ha Bubi fire, 14 October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,863 ha in total · 5 days
  39. 2,344 ha Lupane fire, 4 October 2018 0.4% of the municipality · 26,727 ha in total · 29 days
  40. 2,458 ha Bubi fire, 24 September 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,446 ha in total · 4 days
  41. 1 ha Umguza fire, 20 September 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,250 ha in total · 2 days
  42. 1,023 ha Bubi fire, 19 September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,019 ha in total · 1 day
  43. 496 ha Insiza fire, 19 September 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 2,452 ha in total · 3 days
  44. 3,112 ha Bubi fire, 15 September 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,096 ha in total · 5 days
  45. 757 ha Umguza fire, 14 September 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 1,672 ha in total · 4 days
  46. 1,044 ha Bubi fire, 3 September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,039 ha in total · 2 days
  47. 1,476 ha Bubi fire, 29 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,590 ha in total · 5 days
  48. 1,054 ha Bubi fire, 24 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,050 ha in total · 2 days
  49. 1,502 ha Bubi fire, 22 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,517 ha in total · 2 days
  50. 1,960 ha Bubi fire, October 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,952 ha in total · 2 days
  51. 665 ha Umguza fire, 11 October 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 3,995 ha in total · 8 days
  52. 2,746 ha Bubi fire, 22 September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,913 ha in total · 6 days
  53. 4,344 ha Bubi fire, 13 September 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,403 ha in total · 6 days
  54. 1,400 ha Bubi fire, 8 October 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,393 ha in total · 5 days
  55. 1,503 ha Bubi fire, 7 October 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,498 ha in total · 4 days
  56. 583 ha Nkayi fire, 4 October 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 5,304 ha in total · 17 days
  57. 1,046 ha Bubi fire, September 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,038 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).

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