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Wildfires in Norton

Norton, Zimbabwe, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2019: 33 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.5% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 32).

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 35° · 16 % · 42 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 33° · 25 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 30° · 31 % · 41 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 31° · 25 % · 31 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 32° · 18 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 32° · 24 % · 38 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 31° · 23 % · 48 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 30° · 22 % · 41 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

33
hectares burned
0.5 %
of its area
1
fires
62
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Norton

  1. 33 ha Chegutu fire, August 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 1,111 ha in total · 2 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).