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Wildfires in Nkayi

Nkayi, Zimbabwe, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 9,699 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 44).

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. Mon 26 High 34° · 18 % · 30 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very high 34° · 17 % · 44 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very high 34° · 22 % · 37 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very high 33° · 18 % · 49 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very high 32° · 18 % · 44 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very high 34° · 18 % · 45 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very high 34° · 17 % · 41 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very high 35° · 13 % · 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

9,699
hectares burned
2.0 %
of its area
5
fires
4,855
km²

How many times has Nkayi burned?

Nkayi has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Nkayi fire, September 2026, with 1,819 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
4
years with fire
9,699
cumulative ha
12 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 Nkayi

  1. 1,819 ha Nkayi fire, September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,808 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 66 ha Gokwe South fire, 14 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,630 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 1,123 ha Nkayi fire, September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,116 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 2,561 ha Nkayi fire, 14 October 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,544 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 4,130 ha Nkayi fire, 4 October 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,304 ha in total · 18 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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