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Wildfires in Chimanimani

Chimanimani, Zimbabwe, has had 45 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 94,710 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 28% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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 Moderate 31° · 30 % · 44 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 24° · 63 % · 39 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 27° · 39 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 28° · 25 % · 39 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 31° · 19 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 28° · 31 % · 38 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 23° · 39 % · 37 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 24° · 38 % · 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

94,710
hectares burned
28 %
of its area
45
fires
3,363
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Chimanimani

  1. 2,077 ha Chimanimani fire, 28 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,063 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,179 ha Chimanimani fire, 21 July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,241 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,966 ha Chimanimani fire, 8 December 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,953 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 837 ha Chimanimani fire, 8 December 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,390 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,048 ha Chimanimani fire, 2 December 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,041 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 1,602 ha Chimanimani fire, October 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,965 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,775 ha Chimanimani fire, 18 September 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,765 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 5,735 ha Chimanimani fire, 15 September 2024 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 5,697 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 2,189 ha Chimanimani fire, 14 September 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,174 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 2,521 ha Chimanimani fire, November 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,506 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 1,350 ha Chimanimani fire, September 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,343 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 1,266 ha Chimanimani fire, 17 October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,258 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 3,242 ha Chimanimani fire, 14 October 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,220 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 1,471 ha Chimanimani fire, 7 October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,462 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 1,776 ha Chimanimani fire, 6 October 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,764 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 1,755 ha Chimanimani fire, 3 October 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,823 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 2,733 ha Chimanimani fire, 2 October 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,821 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 1,266 ha Chimanimani fire, December 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,258 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 1,658 ha Chimanimani fire, November 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,647 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 2,512 ha Chimanimani fire, October 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,495 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 1,334 ha Chimanimani fire, 21 September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,326 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 2,669 ha Chimanimani fire, 20 September 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,693 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 1,036 ha Chimanimani fire, 19 September 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,029 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 1,514 ha Chimanimani fire, November 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,504 ha in total · 10 days
  25. 15,746 ha Chimanimani fire, 22 October 2019 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 15,649 ha in total · 22 days
  26. 1,546 ha Chimanimani fire, 20 October 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,536 ha in total · 10 days
  27. 1,085 ha Chimanimani fire, 19 September 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,078 ha in total · 6 days
  28. 1,665 ha Chimanimani fire, 19 September 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,655 ha in total · 3 days
  29. 1,919 ha Chimanimani fire, 31 October 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,908 ha in total · 2 days
  30. 1,324 ha Chimanimani fire, 31 October 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,316 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 799 ha Chimanimani fire, 26 October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,018 ha in total · 4 days
  32. 1,136 ha Chimanimani fire, 19 September 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,129 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 1,256 ha Chimanimani fire, 16 September 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,248 ha in total · 5 days
  34. 1,340 ha Chimanimani fire, July 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,392 ha in total · 4 days
  35. 2,700 ha Chimanimani fire, October 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,683 ha in total · 12 days
  36. 1,770 ha Chimanimani fire, November 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,758 ha in total · 3 days
  37. 2,921 ha Chimanimani fire, 29 October 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,265 ha in total · 5 days
  38. 1,474 ha Chimanimani fire, 28 October 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,464 ha in total · 4 days
  39. 1,165 ha Chimanimani fire, 26 October 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,172 ha in total · 7 days
  40. 1,467 ha Chimanimani fire, 7 October 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,458 ha in total · 6 days
  41. 1,236 ha Chimanimani fire, 6 October 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,229 ha in total · 3 days
  42. 3,682 ha Chimanimani fire, 6 October 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,658 ha in total · 7 days
  43. 1,136 ha Chimanimani fire, 27 September 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,131 ha in total · 3 days
  44. 1,597 ha Chimanimani fire, 10 September 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,589 ha in total · 3 days
  45. 1,236 ha Chimanimani fire, 7 September 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,228 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).