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Wildfires in Kwekwe

Kwekwe, Zimbabwe, has had 30 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 37,924 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 49).

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 37° · 17 % · 46 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 35° · 20 % · 48 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 34° · 23 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 34° · 18 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 34° · 16 % · 33 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 36° · 17 % · 43 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 34° · 17 % · 44 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 32° · 16 % · 41 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

37,924
hectares burned
4.3 %
of its area
30
fires
8,795
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kwekwe

  1. 1,482 ha Kwekwe fire, September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,473 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,106 ha Kwekwe fire, August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,098 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,296 ha Kwekwe fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,287 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 140 ha Mhondoro-Ngezi fire, 18 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,059 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,548 ha Kwekwe fire, September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,537 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,323 ha Kwekwe fire, August 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,315 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,116 ha Kwekwe fire, 9 September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,110 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,241 ha Kwekwe fire, 8 September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,232 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 24 ha Mhondoro-Ngezi fire, July 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,048 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 139 ha Gweru fire, 9 October 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,312 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 1,831 ha Kwekwe fire, 9 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,820 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 1,366 ha Kwekwe fire, 2 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,357 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,195 ha Kwekwe fire, 30 September 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,188 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 1,258 ha Kwekwe fire, 27 September 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,252 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 1,217 ha Kwekwe fire, 18 September 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,210 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 82 ha Mhondoro-Ngezi fire, 17 September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,411 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 1,362 ha Kwekwe fire, 6 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,354 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 134 ha Gweru fire, 5 September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,068 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 1,914 ha Kwekwe fire, August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,903 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 1,037 ha Kwekwe fire, 15 October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,031 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 3,284 ha Kwekwe fire, 12 October 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,265 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 1,102 ha Kwekwe fire, August 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,096 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 1,406 ha Kwekwe fire, October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,461 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 1,031 ha Kwekwe fire, August 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,025 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 1,077 ha Kwekwe fire, October 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,071 ha in total · 1 day
  26. 2,285 ha Kwekwe fire, 17 September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,272 ha in total · 2 days
  27. 1,650 ha Kwekwe fire, 13 September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,639 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 1,645 ha Kwekwe fire, 8 September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,637 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 1,299 ha Kwekwe fire, 6 September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,292 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 2,331 ha Kwekwe fire, August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,317 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).