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Wildfires in Chikomba

Chikomba, Zimbabwe, has had 68 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 83,812 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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 Very high 34° · 19 % · 46 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 28° · 41 % · 47 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 29° · 34 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 31° · 21 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 33° · 16 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 32° · 20 % · 41 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 28° · 25 % · 50 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 26° · 23 % · 41 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

83,812
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
68
fires
6,540
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Chikomba

  1. 824 ha Hwedza fire, October 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,590 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 2,104 ha Chikomba fire, October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,093 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1,406 ha Chikomba fire, 19 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,400 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,363 ha Chikomba fire, 18 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,357 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 66 ha Hwedza fire, 12 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,031 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,193 ha Chikomba fire, 12 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,388 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1,254 ha Chikomba fire, 1 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,492 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 3,139 ha Chikomba fire, July 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,124 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 174 ha Seke fire, 18 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,029 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 1,015 ha Chikomba fire, June 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,010 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 1,072 ha Chikomba fire, 18 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,067 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 2,020 ha Chikomba fire, 17 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,011 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 523 ha Seke fire, 13 September 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 1,606 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 1,145 ha Chikomba fire, August 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,141 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 994 ha Chikomba fire, August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,041 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 1,169 ha Chikomba fire, October 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,161 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 1,612 ha Chikomba fire, 20 September 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,604 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 961 ha Mhondoro-Ngezi fire, 17 September 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 1,071 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 1,051 ha Chikomba fire, 10 September 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,052 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 1,533 ha Chikomba fire, 22 August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,553 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 1,598 ha Chikomba fire, 22 August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,588 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 728 ha Chikomba fire, October 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,017 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 1,091 ha Chikomba fire, 28 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,085 ha in total · 1 day
  24. 1,216 ha Chikomba fire, 17 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,286 ha in total · 6 days
  25. 1,124 ha Chikomba fire, 8 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,119 ha in total · 1 day
  26. 20 ha Mhondoro-Ngezi fire, 5 September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,187 ha in total · 2 days
  27. 336 ha Mhondoro-Ngezi fire, 5 September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,476 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 1,405 ha Chikomba fire, 3 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,396 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 1,199 ha Chikomba fire, August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,190 ha in total · 1 day
  30. 6 ha Buhera fire, September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,095 ha in total · 1 day
  31. 1,086 ha Chikomba fire, 26 August 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,081 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 1,500 ha Chikomba fire, 26 August 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,493 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 1,412 ha Chikomba fire, July 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,405 ha in total · 1 day
  34. 1,282 ha Chikomba fire, 13 August 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,272 ha in total · 2 days
  35. 643 ha Chikomba fire, 13 August 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,250 ha in total · 1 day
  36. 1,162 ha Chikomba fire, October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,156 ha in total · 3 days
  37. 854 ha Gutu fire, October 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,490 ha in total · 2 days
  38. 1,432 ha Chikomba fire, 21 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,425 ha in total · 3 days
  39. 1,114 ha Chikomba fire, 19 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,109 ha in total · 1 day
  40. 1,202 ha Chikomba fire, 19 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,197 ha in total · 1 day
  41. 128 ha Seke fire, 19 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,117 ha in total · 2 days
  42. 679 ha Chikomba fire, 19 September 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,026 ha in total · 2 days
  43. 2,508 ha Chikomba fire, 16 September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,494 ha in total · 5 days
  44. 1,875 ha Chikomba fire, 16 September 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,867 ha in total · 2 days
  45. 1,515 ha Chikomba fire, 14 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,507 ha in total · 1 day
  46. 1,763 ha Chikomba fire, 13 September 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,754 ha in total · 3 days
  47. 1,770 ha Seke fire, 9 September 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 2,379 ha in total · 5 days
  48. 2,172 ha Chikomba fire, 9 September 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,156 ha in total · 2 days
  49. 1,306 ha Chikomba fire, 7 August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,300 ha in total · 2 days
  50. 3,057 ha Chikomba fire, 7 August 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,042 ha in total · 6 days
  51. 1,132 ha Chikomba fire, November 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,247 ha in total · 1 day
  52. 1,058 ha Mhondoro-Ngezi fire, October 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 1,528 ha in total · 6 days
  53. 1,011 ha Chikomba fire, 11 October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,005 ha in total · 2 days
  54. 1,076 ha Chikomba fire, 2 October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,071 ha in total · 1 day
  55. 384 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 16 October 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,339 ha in total · 2 days
  56. 1,620 ha Chikomba fire, October 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,614 ha in total · 2 days
  57. 1,412 ha Chikomba fire, 23 September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,574 ha in total · 1 day
  58. 1,856 ha Chikomba fire, 9 September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,847 ha in total · 2 days
  59. 1,009 ha Chikomba fire, 30 August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,004 ha in total · 2 days
  60. 1,017 ha Chikomba fire, 29 August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,012 ha in total · 2 days
  61. 17 ha Seke fire, 28 August 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,083 ha in total · 4 days
  62. 3,193 ha Chikomba fire, October 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,177 ha in total · 2 days
  63. 84 ha Seke fire, October 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,282 ha in total · 1 day
  64. 1,708 ha Chikomba fire, 8 September 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,700 ha in total · 1 day
  65. 1,223 ha Chikomba fire, 7 September 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,217 ha in total · 3 days
  66. 1,488 ha Chikomba fire, 31 August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,482 ha in total · 1 day
  67. 1,529 ha Chikomba fire, 16 August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,520 ha in total · 2 days
  68. 1,194 ha Chikomba fire, July 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,188 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).