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Wildfires in Mutoko

Mutoko, Zimbabwe, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 12,092 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 40).

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 23 Very high 36° · 19 % · 45 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 31° · 31 % · 50 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 29° · 37 % · 46 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 32° · 19 % · 37 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 33° · 22 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 20 % · 42 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 33° · 25 % · 43 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 30° · 26 % · 44 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

12,092
hectares burned
3.0 %
of its area
12
fires
4,072
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Mutoko

  1. 56 ha Uzumba Maramba Pfungwe fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 118 ha Murehwa fire, 19 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,040 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1,009 ha Mutoko fire, 27 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,003 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,665 ha Mutoko fire, 19 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,654 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 870 ha Mutoko fire, 21 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,298 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,297 ha Mutoko fire, 1 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,289 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 323 ha Murehwa fire, September 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 1,336 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 1,130 ha Mutoko fire, August 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,123 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 1,499 ha Mutoko fire, 10 October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,491 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 2,037 ha Mutoko fire, 8 October 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,025 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 1,062 ha Mutoko fire, 6 October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,055 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 167 ha Murehwa fire, 27 October 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,543 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 915 ha Mutoko fire, September 2018 where it started 0.2% 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).