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Wildfires in Harare

Harare, Zimbabwe, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2026: 1,166 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.8% 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. Thu 22 Low 34° · 21 % · 33 km/h
  2. Fri 23 High 34° · 19 % · 37 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Moderate 29° · 38 % · 45 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Moderate 29° · 34 % · 45 km/h
  5. Mon 26 High 30° · 21 % · 39 km/h
  6. Tue 27 High 32° · 13 % · 34 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Moderate 30° · 25 % · 40 km/h
  8. Thu 29 High 32° · 18 % · 34 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

1,166
hectares burned
1.8 %
of its area
2
fires
664
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Harare

  1. 1,166 ha Harare fire, September 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,183 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1 ha Mazowe fire, 15 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,093 ha in total · 3 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).