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Wildfires in Chipinge

Chipinge, Zimbabwe, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 5,710 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 Low 32° · 49 % · 43 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 26° · 67 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 30° · 43 % · 40 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 33° · 28 % · 40 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 36° · 17 % · 41 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 29° · 45 % · 48 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 28° · 29 % · 43 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 26° · 32 % · 37 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

5,710
hectares burned
1.1 %
of its area
7
fires
5,244
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Chipinge

  1. 1,005 ha Chipinge fire, 16 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,003 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,262 ha Chipinge fire, 31 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,252 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 1,253 ha Chipinge fire, September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,249 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 560 ha Chimanimani fire, 8 December 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 1,390 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,041 ha Chipinge fire, September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,038 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 225 ha Chimanimani fire, 26 October 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,018 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 365 ha Chimanimani fire, 29 October 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 3,265 ha in total · 5 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).