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Wildfires in Chirumhanzu

Chirumhanzu, Zimbabwe, has had 38 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 51,845 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).

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 31 High 29° · 16 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sun 1 High 32° · 18 % · 35 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very high 33° · 14 % · 35 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very high 33° · 20 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very high 33° · 21 % · 33 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very high 33° · 23 % · 37 km/h
  7. Fri 6 High 34° · 19 % · 32 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very high 34° · 21 % · 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

51,845
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
38
fires
4,774
km²

How many times has Chirumhanzu burned?

Chirumhanzu has burned 38 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Gutu fire, 15 September 2026, with 616 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 51,845 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 47,065 hectares, 9.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 6× 17
  3. 8× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 6× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 9× 26
38
fires
9
years with fire
51,845
cumulative ha
47,065
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 Chirumhanzu

  1. 616 ha Gutu fire, 15 September 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,556 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,194 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 14 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,187 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 2,316 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 12 September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,304 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 2,163 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 12 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,151 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 203 ha Chikomba fire, 12 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,388 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1,465 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 10 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,459 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1,232 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 3 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,223 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 1,107 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 7 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,101 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 2,313 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 4 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,301 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 3,862 ha Chirumhanzu fire, August 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,842 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 1,340 ha Chirumhanzu fire, September 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,332 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 1,782 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 10 October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,777 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,465 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 9 October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,458 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 1,536 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 7 October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,528 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 1,309 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 15 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,304 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 77 ha Chikomba fire, 13 September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,286 ha in total · 10 days
  17. 1,336 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 12 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,330 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 1,006 ha Chirumhanzu fire, August 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,002 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 1,012 ha Chirumhanzu fire, September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,006 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 1,812 ha Chirumhanzu fire, October 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,802 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 1,659 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 29 September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,653 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 1,398 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 28 September 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,390 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 353 ha Chikomba fire, 19 September 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,026 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 1,075 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 9 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,071 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 64 ha Kwekwe fire, October 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,461 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 1,460 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 15 September 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,453 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 1,234 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 13 September 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,228 ha in total · 11 days
  28. 1,612 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 13 September 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,611 ha in total · 9 days
  29. 1,520 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 30 August 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,514 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 1,106 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 22 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,100 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 1,029 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 14 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,023 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 1,153 ha Chirumhanzu fire, July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,148 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 1,040 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 17 October 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,036 ha in total · 2 days
  34. 960 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 16 October 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,339 ha in total · 2 days
  35. 1,456 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 12 September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,450 ha in total · 2 days
  36. 2,883 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 10 September 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,873 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 1,168 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 8 September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,162 ha in total · 1 day
  38. 1,529 ha Chirumhanzu fire, August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,524 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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