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Wildfires in Hwedza

Hwedza, Zimbabwe, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 17,910 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.0% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 30).

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 28 High 29° · 39 % · 38 km/h
  2. Thu 29 High 27° · 36 % · 45 km/h
  3. Fri 30 High 26° · 31 % · 34 km/h
  4. Sat 31 High 27° · 25 % · 33 km/h
  5. Sun 1 High 30° · 23 % · 33 km/h
  6. Mon 2 High 31° · 20 % · 25 km/h
  7. Tue 3 High 32° · 16 % · 30 km/h
  8. Wed 4 High 32° · 21 % · 32 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

17,910
hectares burned
7.0 %
of its area
19
fires
2,572
km²

How many times has Hwedza burned?

Hwedza has burned 19 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Hwedza fire, October 2026, with 772 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 17,910 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,184 hectares, 6.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 6× 26
19
fires
9
years with fire
17,910
cumulative ha
16,184
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 Hwedza

  1. 772 ha Hwedza fire, October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,590 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,199 ha Hwedza fire, 25 September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,194 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,127 ha Hwedza fire, 15 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,122 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 970 ha Hwedza fire, 12 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,031 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,012 ha Hwedza fire, 3 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1,472 ha Hwedza fire, August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,465 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,105 ha Hwedza fire, September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,099 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 80 ha Marondera fire, 1 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,173 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 52 ha Chikomba fire, August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,041 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 1,229 ha Hwedza fire, August 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,223 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 26 ha Chikomba fire, 22 August 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,553 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,199 ha Hwedza fire, 29 July 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,193 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 1,176 ha Hwedza fire, 2 July 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,171 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 1,228 ha Hwedza fire, October 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,222 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 1,082 ha Hwedza fire, August 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,077 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 1,372 ha Hwedza fire, October 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,363 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 1,201 ha Hwedza fire, September 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,196 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 1,247 ha Hwedza fire, August 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,241 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 363 ha Marondera fire, September 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,204 ha in total · 1 day

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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