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Wildfires in Gwanda

Gwanda, Zimbabwe, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 3,851 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.4% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 24).

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 32° · 22 % · 50 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 28° · 52 % · 38 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 33° · 26 % · 33 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 36° · 16 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 39° · 13 % · 41 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 31° · 37 % · 52 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 28° · 38 % · 49 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 28° · 28 % · 40 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

3,851
hectares burned
0.4 %
of its area
3
fires
10,763
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Gwanda

  1. 2,074 ha Gwanda fire, September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,070 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 698 ha Gwanda fire, October 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,072 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1,079 ha Gwanda fire, September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,072 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).