Wildfires in Makonde

Name: Makonde
Address: ZW

Makonde, Zimbabwe, has had 188 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 295,299 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 39).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast

Fri 23 Very high 39° · 16 % · 34 km/h
Sat 24 Very high 36° · 20 % · 45 km/h
Sun 25 High 33° · 25 % · 44 km/h
Mon 26 High 34° · 22 % · 37 km/h
Tue 27 Very high 36° · 14 % · 31 km/h
Wed 28 Very high 37° · 16 % · 40 km/h
Thu 29 Very high 36° · 21 % · 54 km/h
Fri 30 Very high 34° · 13 % · 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.

Since 2016

295,299
hectares burned: 34 %
of its area: 188
fires: 8,614
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Makonde

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).

Fire danger, today and the coming days

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

Hectares per year

Fires that entered Makonde

Where this data comes from