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Wildfires in Masvingo

Masvingo, Zimbabwe, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 24,146 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 Low 27° · 42 % · 46 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 24° · 69 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 29° · 42 % · 32 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 32° · 26 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 34° · 20 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 27° · 48 % · 44 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 26° · 37 % · 42 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 24° · 40 % · 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

24,146
hectares burned
3.5 %
of its area
16
fires
6,883
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Masvingo

  1. 305 ha Gutu fire, 26 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,234 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,577 ha Masvingo fire, 17 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,742 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,549 ha Masvingo fire, 13 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,545 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,145 ha Masvingo fire, September 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,140 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 1,228 ha Masvingo fire, August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,224 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 398 ha Zaka fire, September 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,073 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,333 ha Masvingo fire, August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,330 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 1,183 ha Masvingo fire, 26 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,179 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 1,061 ha Masvingo fire, 19 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,057 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 1,567 ha Masvingo fire, 26 August 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,561 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 1,182 ha Masvingo fire, 24 August 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,178 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 1,128 ha Masvingo fire, September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,124 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,156 ha Masvingo fire, 19 September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,152 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 6,832 ha Masvingo fire, 15 September 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 6,807 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 1,015 ha Masvingo fire, 7 September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,011 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 1,487 ha Masvingo fire, October 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,482 ha in total · 4 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).