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Wildfires in Marondera

Marondera, Zimbabwe, has had 23 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 27,000 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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. Sat 24 Moderate 29° · 34 % · 46 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 33 % · 28 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 28° · 31 % · 32 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 30° · 19 % · 35 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 23 % · 32 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 49 % · 51 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 26° · 35 % · 43 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 26° · 30 % · 39 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

27,000
hectares burned
7.9 %
of its area
23
fires
3,434
km²

How many times has Marondera burned?

Marondera has burned 23 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Seke fire, September 2026, with 1 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 27,000 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 25,197 hectares, 7.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 5× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 6× 25
  11. 4× 26
23
fires
9
years with fire
27,000
cumulative ha
25,197
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 Marondera

  1. 1 ha Seke fire, September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,157 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,125 ha Marondera fire, 27 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,117 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,170 ha Marondera fire, 24 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,163 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1,082 ha Marondera fire, 24 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,076 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 670 ha Marondera fire, 16 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,005 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1,282 ha Marondera fire, 14 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,275 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,101 ha Marondera fire, 1 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,173 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 1,097 ha Marondera fire, 31 August 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,637 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,362 ha Marondera fire, 25 August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,353 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 1,298 ha Marondera fire, 21 August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,291 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 1,228 ha Marondera fire, August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,220 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 78 ha Seke fire, 1 July 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,014 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,293 ha Marondera fire, 10 October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,287 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 1,483 ha Marondera fire, 10 October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,477 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 1,504 ha Marondera fire, 5 October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,497 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 1,506 ha Marondera fire, August 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,497 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 4,244 ha Marondera fire, 18 September 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,221 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 1,502 ha Marondera fire, 15 September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,497 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 2,221 ha Marondera fire, 14 September 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,208 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 18 ha Makoni fire, 12 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,083 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 516 ha Marondera fire, 11 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 370 ha Goromonzi fire, September 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,151 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 848 ha Marondera fire, September 2016 where it started 0.2% 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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