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Wildfires in Mangwe

Mangwe, Zimbabwe, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 46,918 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.2% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 33).

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 33° · 24 % · 46 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 30° · 40 % · 46 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 33° · 20 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 36° · 13 % · 29 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 36° · 17 % · 41 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 31° · 38 % · 51 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 28° · 43 % · 47 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 30° · 24 % · 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

46,918
hectares burned
8.2 %
of its area
17
fires
5,750
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Mangwe

  1. 1,726 ha Mangwe fire, December 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,719 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 568 ha Matobo fire, 26 November 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,339 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 113 ha Matobo fire, 8 November 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,022 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 18,190 ha Mangwe fire, October 2022 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 23,606 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 2,622 ha Mangwe fire, 17 September 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,620 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,190 ha Mangwe fire, 17 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,202 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 696 ha Mangwe fire, 16 September 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,163 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 5,652 ha Mangwe fire, 11 September 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,636 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,538 ha Mangwe fire, August 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,545 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 2,001 ha Mangwe fire, 11 October 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,997 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 2,254 ha Mangwe fire, 10 October 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,292 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 1,021 ha Mangwe fire, 9 October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,019 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 2,078 ha Mangwe fire, 9 October 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,823 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 1,437 ha Mangwe fire, September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,434 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 1,743 ha Mangwe fire, August 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,739 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 1,981 ha Mangwe fire, October 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,976 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 2,108 ha Mangwe fire, July 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,104 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).