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Wildfires in Matobo

Matobo, Zimbabwe, has had 43 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 73,443 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 31).

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° · 19 % · 46 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 30° · 43 % · 46 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 33° · 22 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 36° · 14 % · 29 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 38° · 12 % · 38 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 32° · 30 % · 49 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 31° · 28 % · 48 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 29° · 24 % · 45 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

73,443
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
43
fires
7,281
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Matobo

  1. 1,269 ha Matobo fire, 24 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,266 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,082 ha Matobo fire, 12 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,080 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,855 ha Matobo fire, 22 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,852 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,077 ha Matobo fire, 15 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,076 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 1,124 ha Matobo fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,123 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 265 ha Umzingwane fire, 19 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,190 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,084 ha Matobo fire, September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,082 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 2,184 ha Matobo fire, August 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,180 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 776 ha Matobo fire, 26 November 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,339 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 914 ha Matobo fire, 8 November 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,022 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 1,610 ha Matobo fire, August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,607 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 1,746 ha Matobo fire, July 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,742 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 2,455 ha Matobo fire, 14 October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,449 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 4,376 ha Mangwe fire, October 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 23,606 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 1,791 ha Matobo fire, 6 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,789 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 2,099 ha Matobo fire, 2 October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,095 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 15 ha Mangwe fire, 17 September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,202 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 1,257 ha Matobo fire, 11 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,255 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 1,459 ha Matobo fire, 4 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,457 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 1,319 ha Matobo fire, 28 August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,316 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 2,431 ha Matobo fire, 12 August 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,429 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 1,035 ha Matobo fire, October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,034 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 1,223 ha Matobo fire, September 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,221 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 1,365 ha Matobo fire, August 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,363 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 1,097 ha Matobo fire, October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,097 ha in total · 3 days
  26. 3,829 ha Matobo fire, 20 September 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,821 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 1,095 ha Matobo fire, 17 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,092 ha in total · 6 days
  28. 1,596 ha Matobo fire, 12 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,592 ha in total · 3 days
  29. 11 ha Mangwe fire, August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,545 ha in total · 2 days
  30. 1,222 ha Matobo fire, 29 October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,220 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 1,752 ha Mangwe fire, 9 October 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 3,823 ha in total · 4 days
  32. 4,204 ha Matobo fire, 1 October 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,193 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 1,448 ha Matobo fire, 19 September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,446 ha in total · 2 days
  34. 1,345 ha Matobo fire, 16 September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,342 ha in total · 5 days
  35. 1,229 ha Matobo fire, 14 September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,227 ha in total · 3 days
  36. 3,351 ha Matobo fire, 25 August 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,345 ha in total · 3 days
  37. 1,545 ha Matobo fire, 5 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,544 ha in total · 1 day
  38. 1,294 ha Matobo fire, 3 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,293 ha in total · 4 days
  39. 3,366 ha Matobo fire, 3 August 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,362 ha in total · 6 days
  40. 1,593 ha Matobo fire, July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,591 ha in total · 1 day
  41. 2,366 ha Matobo fire, September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,363 ha in total · 2 days
  42. 1,093 ha Matobo fire, August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,099 ha in total · 2 days
  43. 4,195 ha Matobo fire, October 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,188 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).