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Wildfires in Mount Darwin

Mount Darwin, Zimbabwe, has had 58 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 77,016 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 42).

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 38° · 17 % · 43 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 33° · 28 % · 53 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 31° · 41 % · 47 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 33° · 23 % · 38 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 34° · 22 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 36° · 21 % · 47 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 31° · 38 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 30° · 28 % · 40 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

77,016
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
58
fires
4,623
km²

How many times has Mount Darwin burned?

Mount Darwin has burned 58 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mount Darwin fire, 20 October 2026, with 820 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 7× 17
  3. 4× 18
  4. 11× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 11× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 7× 26
58
fires
11
years with fire
77,016
cumulative ha
20 Oct 2026
most recent

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 Mount Darwin

  1. 820 ha Mount Darwin fire, 20 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,021 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,119 ha Mount Darwin fire, 18 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,111 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1,070 ha Mount Darwin fire, 17 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,064 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 1,322 ha Mount Darwin fire, September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,313 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 572 ha Centenary/ Muzarabani fire, September 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,478 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 3,207 ha Mount Darwin fire, 31 August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,499 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 1,217 ha Mount Darwin fire, 7 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,479 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,569 ha Mount Darwin fire, October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,560 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 661 ha Mount Darwin fire, September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,202 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 1,019 ha Mount Darwin fire, September 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,138 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 1,069 ha Mount Darwin fire, October 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,063 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 1,278 ha Mount Darwin fire, September 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,270 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,278 ha Mount Darwin fire, August 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,269 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 1,100 ha Mount Darwin fire, 19 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,093 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 2,817 ha Mount Darwin fire, 10 October 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,800 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 1,344 ha Mount Darwin fire, 9 October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,335 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 1,160 ha Mount Darwin fire, 8 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,152 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 1,228 ha Mount Darwin fire, 8 October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,221 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 2,011 ha Mount Darwin fire, 2 October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,197 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 2,547 ha Mount Darwin fire, 28 September 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,531 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 1,601 ha Mount Darwin fire, 20 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,679 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 1,166 ha Mount Darwin fire, 20 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,158 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 1,289 ha Mount Darwin fire, 13 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,281 ha in total · 1 day
  24. 0 ha Shamva fire, 19 August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,064 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 1,039 ha Mount Darwin fire, 30 October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,033 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 2,177 ha Mount Darwin fire, 7 October 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,164 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 3,150 ha Mount Darwin fire, 21 September 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,128 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 884 ha Mount Darwin fire, 20 September 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,095 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 71 ha Centenary/ Muzarabani fire, 26 September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,780 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 1,102 ha Mount Darwin fire, September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,131 ha in total · 1 day
  31. 1,202 ha Mount Darwin fire, 31 July 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,195 ha in total · 1 day
  32. 1,185 ha Mount Darwin fire, 15 July 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,177 ha in total · 1 day
  33. 1,911 ha Mount Darwin fire, 22 October 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,927 ha in total · 6 days
  34. 2,313 ha Mount Darwin fire, 21 October 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,299 ha in total · 2 days
  35. 1,596 ha Mount Darwin fire, 12 September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,585 ha in total · 2 days
  36. 1,070 ha Mount Darwin fire, 10 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 1,343 ha Mount Darwin fire, 10 September 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,335 ha in total · 5 days
  38. 1,261 ha Mount Darwin fire, 8 September 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,255 ha in total · 2 days
  39. 5 ha Bindura fire, 6 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,206 ha in total · 4 days
  40. 3,344 ha Mount Darwin fire, 5 September 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,335 ha in total · 2 days
  41. 1,195 ha Mount Darwin fire, 25 August 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,190 ha in total · 2 days
  42. 1,078 ha Mount Darwin fire, 17 August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,070 ha in total · 2 days
  43. 1,078 ha Mount Darwin fire, July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,072 ha in total · 1 day
  44. 1,794 ha Mount Darwin fire, 29 September 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,783 ha in total · 1 day
  45. 1,329 ha Mount Darwin fire, 23 September 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,320 ha in total · 2 days
  46. 563 ha Shamva fire, 29 August 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 1,144 ha in total · 2 days
  47. 316 ha Centenary/ Muzarabani fire, 20 August 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 1,423 ha in total · 2 days
  48. 1,333 ha Mount Darwin fire, 16 October 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,326 ha in total · 3 days
  49. 1,241 ha Mount Darwin fire, 16 October 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,235 ha in total · 3 days
  50. 1,594 ha Mount Darwin fire, 14 September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,585 ha in total · 5 days
  51. 1,285 ha Mount Darwin fire, 14 September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,278 ha in total · 4 days
  52. 3,567 ha Mount Darwin fire, 14 September 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,764 ha in total · 4 days
  53. 201 ha Centenary/ Muzarabani fire, 8 September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,966 ha in total · 3 days
  54. 830 ha Mount Darwin fire, 4 September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,104 ha in total · 1 day
  55. 1,020 ha Mount Darwin fire, 17 October 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,012 ha in total · 2 days
  56. 1,486 ha Mount Darwin fire, 14 October 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,477 ha in total · 1 day
  57. 248 ha Centenary/ Muzarabani fire, 8 October 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,198 ha in total · 1 day
  58. 743 ha Centenary/ Muzarabani fire, 6 September 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 1,495 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).

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