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Wildfires in Mutare

Mutare, Zimbabwe, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 14,223 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.6% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 High 36° · 26 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 30° · 49 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 29° · 42 % · 39 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 33° · 28 % · 39 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 37° · 14 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 26 % · 40 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 30° · 27 % · 43 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 28° · 31 % · 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

14,223
hectares burned
2.6 %
of its area
15
fires
5,552
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Mutare

  1. 300 ha Makoni fire, 20 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,168 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,029 ha Mutare fire, September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,026 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1,097 ha Mutare fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,093 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,057 ha Mutare fire, September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,254 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,360 ha Mutare fire, August 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,357 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,036 ha Mutare fire, 13 September 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,031 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 149 ha Mutare fire, 12 September 2024 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,034 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 68 ha Makoni fire, August 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 1,144 ha Mutare fire, August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,173 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 1,116 ha Mutare fire, August 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,114 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 1,033 ha Mutare fire, 11 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,029 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,206 ha Mutare fire, 6 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,203 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,392 ha Mutare fire, August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,387 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 1,149 ha Mutare fire, October 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,145 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 1,087 ha Mutare fire, September 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,208 ha in total · 3 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).