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Wildfires in Gweru

Gweru, Zimbabwe, has had 57 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 79,846 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 26).

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 24 High 28° · 43 % · 52 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 31° · 27 % · 32 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 32° · 18 % · 31 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 33° · 17 % · 41 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 32° · 23 % · 43 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 28° · 41 % · 54 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 30° · 27 % · 47 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 28° · 26 % · 46 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

79,846
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
57
fires
5,917
km²

How many times has Gweru burned?

Gweru has burned 57 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Insiza fire, 17 September 2026, with 1,422 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 15× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5.   20
  6. 6× 21
  7. 13× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 5× 26
57
fires
10
years with fire
79,846
cumulative ha
17 Sept 2026
most recent

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 Gweru

  1. 1,422 ha Insiza fire, 17 September 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,177 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,421 ha Gweru fire, 26 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,412 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1,716 ha Gweru fire, 26 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,706 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,187 ha Gweru fire, 25 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,180 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,070 ha Gweru fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,776 ha Gweru fire, September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,764 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 5,271 ha Gweru fire, August 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,238 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,578 ha Gweru fire, September 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,567 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 810 ha Gweru fire, 21 August 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,221 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 1,192 ha Gweru fire, 15 August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,185 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 1,192 ha Gweru fire, 14 August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,186 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 1,267 ha Gweru fire, July 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,616 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,177 ha Gweru fire, 9 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,312 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 1,332 ha Gweru fire, 5 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,326 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 2,028 ha Gweru fire, 3 October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,018 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 1,240 ha Gweru fire, 2 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,236 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 1,061 ha Gweru fire, 25 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,056 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 1,552 ha Gweru fire, 24 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,542 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 1,023 ha Insiza fire, 19 September 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 1,534 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 1,192 ha Gweru fire, 17 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,186 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 1,047 ha Gweru fire, 16 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,042 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 1,386 ha Gweru fire, 10 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,379 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 1,014 ha Gweru fire, 10 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,010 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 1,347 ha Gweru fire, 5 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,341 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 938 ha Gweru fire, 5 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,068 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 1,098 ha Gweru fire, October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,093 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 40 ha Insiza fire, October 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 5,914 ha in total · 5 days
  28. 679 ha Insiza fire, 29 September 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 1,566 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 1,718 ha Gweru fire, September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,710 ha in total · 7 days
  30. 179 ha Shurugwi fire, July 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,423 ha in total · 1 day
  31. 1,596 ha Gweru fire, July 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,587 ha in total · 1 day
  32. 1,329 ha Gweru fire, 26 October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,325 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 1,333 ha Gweru fire, 21 October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,323 ha in total · 3 days
  34. 1,073 ha Gweru fire, September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,067 ha in total · 1 day
  35. 2,033 ha Gweru fire, July 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,019 ha in total · 1 day
  36. 1,240 ha Gweru fire, 13 October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,231 ha in total · 2 days
  37. 2,466 ha Gweru fire, 7 October 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,449 ha in total · 4 days
  38. 3,126 ha Gweru fire, 29 September 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,106 ha in total · 1 day
  39. 1,270 ha Gweru fire, 24 September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,260 ha in total · 2 days
  40. 797 ha Gweru fire, 24 September 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,543 ha in total · 2 days
  41. 1,085 ha Gweru fire, 17 September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,080 ha in total · 3 days
  42. 7 ha Chirumhanzu fire, 15 September 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,611 ha in total · 7 days
  43. 1,642 ha Gweru fire, 14 September 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,635 ha in total · 6 days
  44. 2,177 ha Gweru fire, 13 September 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,166 ha in total · 4 days
  45. 981 ha Gweru fire, 30 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,375 ha in total · 3 days
  46. 1,008 ha Insiza fire, 14 August 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 3,300 ha in total · 3 days
  47. 1,012 ha Gweru fire, 5 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,041 ha in total · 2 days
  48. 1,504 ha Gweru fire, 4 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,495 ha in total · 2 days
  49. 1,187 ha Gweru fire, 25 July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,179 ha in total · 3 days
  50. 1,035 ha Gweru fire, 1 July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,030 ha in total · 2 days
  51. 423 ha Gweru fire, October 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,060 ha in total · 1 day
  52. 1,780 ha Gweru fire, 12 September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,769 ha in total · 2 days
  53. 1,085 ha Gweru fire, 9 September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,081 ha in total · 6 days
  54. 1,227 ha Gweru fire, 17 August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,221 ha in total · 2 days
  55. 1,989 ha Gweru fire, 7 August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,979 ha in total · 1 day
  56. 3,979 ha Gweru fire, October 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,961 ha in total · 4 days
  57. 1,508 ha Gweru fire, September 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,498 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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