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Wildfires in Gokwe North

Gokwe North, Zimbabwe, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 15,843 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.2% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 54).

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. Wed 4 Extreme 40° · 14 % · 41 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Extreme 38° · 16 % · 30 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Extreme 39° · 16 % · 34 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Extreme 38° · 19 % · 39 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very high 37° · 24 % · 45 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Moderate 35° · 37 % · 46 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 33° · 35 % · 31 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Moderate 35° · 25 % · 27 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Gokwe North: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

15,843
hectares burned
2.2 %
of its area
14
fires
7,309
km²

How many times has Gokwe North burned?

Gokwe North has burned 14 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Gokwe North fire, October 2026, with 1,515 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 15,843 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,008 hectares, 2.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
14
fires
7
years with fire
15,843
cumulative ha
15,008
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 Gokwe North

  1. 1,515 ha Gokwe North fire, October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,507 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 1,405 ha Gokwe North fire, September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,395 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,318 ha Gokwe North fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,313 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,415 ha Gokwe North fire, September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,408 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 1,012 ha Gokwe North fire, 6 September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,027 ha Gokwe North fire, 6 September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,020 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,361 ha Gokwe North fire, October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,354 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 3 ha Hurungwe fire, 4 October 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,745 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 1,238 ha Gokwe North fire, September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,234 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 1,217 ha Gokwe North fire, October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,210 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 9 ha Binga fire, 10 August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,247 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 1,336 ha Gokwe North fire, July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,329 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,634 ha Gokwe North fire, October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,624 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 1,353 ha Gokwe North fire, September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,345 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).

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