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Wildfires in Bulilima

Bulilima, Zimbabwe, has had 29 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 53,268 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.2% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 54).

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 36° · 14 % · 48 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 33° · 23 % · 50 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 33° · 18 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 34° · 19 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Extreme 35° · 17 % · 38 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 32° · 28 % · 42 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 33° · 22 % · 42 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 32° · 20 % · 46 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

53,268
hectares burned
8.2 %
of its area
29
fires
6,471
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Bulilima

  1. 1,174 ha Bulilima fire, October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,850 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 4,045 ha Bulilima fire, 20 October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,027 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 4,562 ha Bulilima fire, 19 October 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,532 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 3,796 ha Bulilima fire, 17 October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,222 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,137 ha Bulilima fire, 12 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,130 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 946 ha Bulilima fire, 11 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,109 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 715 ha Bulilima fire, September 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,345 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 5,573 ha Bulilima fire, August 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,550 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 1,472 ha Bulilima fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,466 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 31 ha Plumtree fire, November 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,350 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 1,331 ha Bulilima fire, 22 September 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,322 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 1,073 ha Bulilima fire, 22 September 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,068 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 1,442 ha Bulilima fire, October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,433 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 1,091 ha Mangwe fire, October 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 23,606 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 2,726 ha Bulilima fire, 27 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,710 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 282 ha Mangwe fire, 16 September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,163 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 3,036 ha Bulilima fire, 4 September 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,019 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 1,706 ha Bulilima fire, 12 August 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,694 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 3,094 ha Bulilima fire, 7 August 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,074 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 1,057 ha Bulilima fire, October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,050 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 2,238 ha Bulilima fire, September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,225 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 270 ha Umguza fire, 30 October 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,509 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 41 ha Mangwe fire, 10 October 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,292 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 1,962 ha Bulilima fire, October 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,951 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 1,048 ha Bulilima fire, 28 September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,040 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 1,272 ha Bulilima fire, 6 September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,263 ha in total · 2 days
  27. 3,174 ha Bulilima fire, 4 September 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,155 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 1,125 ha Bulilima fire, 17 October 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,120 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 1,849 ha Bulilima fire, 15 October 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,837 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/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).