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Wildfires in Chegutu

Chegutu, Zimbabwe, has had 44 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 56,097 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 38).

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. Sat 24 Very high 34° · 24 % · 48 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 32° · 26 % · 36 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 33° · 22 % · 30 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 14 % · 27 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 31° · 27 % · 41 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 31° · 27 % · 47 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very high 32° · 23 % · 43 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 32° · 23 % · 43 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

56,097
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
44
fires
5,357
km²

How many times has Chegutu burned?

Chegutu has burned 44 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Chegutu fire, 12 October 2026, with 1,015 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 56,097 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 50,378 hectares, 9.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 6× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 7× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 15× 26
44
fires
9
years with fire
56,097
cumulative ha
50,378
distinct ha

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 Chegutu

  1. 1,015 ha Chegutu fire, 12 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,011 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,018 ha Chegutu fire, 10 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,014 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,374 ha Chegutu fire, 10 October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,369 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,210 ha Chegutu fire, 18 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,495 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 1,281 ha Chegutu fire, 17 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,273 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,038 ha Chegutu fire, 13 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,033 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1,281 ha Chegutu fire, 3 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,276 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 1,011 ha Chegutu fire, 31 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,006 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,459 ha Chegutu fire, 23 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,453 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 1,047 ha Chegutu fire, 23 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,042 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 1,006 ha Chegutu fire, 22 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,002 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 1,274 ha Chegutu fire, 22 July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,267 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,058 ha Chegutu fire, 22 July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,054 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 1,023 ha Chegutu fire, 19 July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,016 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 1,078 ha Chegutu fire, 18 July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,072 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 1,030 ha Chegutu fire, September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,025 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 1,165 ha Chegutu fire, August 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,159 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 1,006 ha Chegutu fire, August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,002 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 1,078 ha Chegutu fire, 22 August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,071 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 1,092 ha Chegutu fire, 16 August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,087 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 1,419 ha Chegutu fire, July 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,414 ha in total · 1 day
  22. 3,382 ha Chegutu fire, October 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,368 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 1,016 ha Chegutu fire, September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,012 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 1,033 ha Chegutu fire, 19 August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,028 ha in total · 1 day
  25. 1,059 ha Chegutu fire, 6 August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,054 ha in total · 3 days
  26. 1,029 ha Chegutu fire, October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,025 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 1,321 ha Chegutu fire, 21 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,314 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 1,115 ha Chegutu fire, 20 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,170 ha in total · 1 day
  29. 1,197 ha Chegutu fire, 4 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,192 ha in total · 1 day
  30. 1,083 ha Chegutu fire, August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,111 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 1,451 ha Chegutu fire, July 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,445 ha in total · 1 day
  32. 183 ha Mhondoro-Ngezi fire, 13 July 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,573 ha in total · 4 days
  33. 1,050 ha Chegutu fire, 23 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,045 ha in total · 2 days
  34. 1,291 ha Chegutu fire, 21 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,286 ha in total · 2 days
  35. 1,161 ha Chegutu fire, 4 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,155 ha in total · 2 days
  36. 94 ha Zvimba fire, 29 September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,013 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 1,337 ha Chegutu fire, 15 September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,330 ha in total · 3 days
  38. 2,999 ha Chegutu fire, 13 September 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,988 ha in total · 4 days
  39. 1,327 ha Chegutu fire, 3 September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,319 ha in total · 2 days
  40. 1,339 ha Chegutu fire, 24 August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,333 ha in total · 2 days
  41. 3,184 ha Chegutu fire, 14 August 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,170 ha in total · 5 days
  42. 1,017 ha Chegutu fire, October 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,013 ha in total · 1 day
  43. 1,797 ha Chegutu fire, September 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,789 ha in total · 2 days
  44. 1,669 ha Chegutu fire, August 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,663 ha in total · 2 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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