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Wildfires in Murehwa

Murehwa, Zimbabwe, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 21,702 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 38).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 6 Very high 32° · 24 % · 38 km/h
  2. Sat 7 Very high 33° · 23 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 8 Very high 33° · 24 % · 32 km/h
  4. Mon 9 Moderate 30° · 36 % · 41 km/h
  5. Tue 10 Very low 29° · 33 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 11 High 30° · 19 % · 34 km/h
  7. Thu 12 High 30° · 20 % · 35 km/h
  8. Fri 13 High 29° · 32 % · 33 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Murehwa: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

21,702
hectares burned
6.1 %
of its area
19
fires
3,577
km²

How many times has Murehwa burned?

Murehwa has burned 19 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Murehwa fire, 19 September 2026, with 925 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 2× 26
19
fires
7
years with fire
21,702
cumulative ha
19 Sept 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 Murehwa

  1. 154 ha Mutoko fire, October 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 925 ha Murehwa fire, 19 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,040 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1,219 ha Murehwa fire, 14 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,211 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 436 ha Mutoko fire, 21 September 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 1,298 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,241 ha Murehwa fire, September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,234 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 735 ha Shamva fire, 1 September 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 1,018 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,019 ha Murehwa fire, September 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,336 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 1,030 ha Murehwa fire, October 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,024 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 1,019 ha Murehwa fire, September 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,012 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 1,172 ha Murehwa fire, 10 October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,165 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 37 ha Shamva fire, 8 October 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,846 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 1,307 ha Murehwa fire, 5 October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,301 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 4,727 ha Murehwa fire, 4 October 2022 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 5,961 ha in total · 13 days
  14. 1,382 ha Murehwa fire, 27 October 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,543 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 1,472 ha Murehwa fire, 17 October 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,467 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 556 ha Marondera fire, 9 September 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 1,141 ha Murehwa fire, August 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,135 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 1,096 ha Murehwa fire, July 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,087 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 1,096 ha Murehwa fire, September 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,092 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 91 ha Mutoko fire, September 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,000 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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