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Wildfires in Plumtree

Plumtree, Zimbabwe, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 1,518 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 45).

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 Extreme 33° · 21 % · 50 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 32° · 27 % · 48 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 33° · 17 % · 37 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 33° · 16 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 34° · 19 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 32° · 27 % · 44 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 31° · 21 % · 44 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 30° · 22 % · 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

1,518
hectares burned
8.7 %
of its area
3
fires
175
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Plumtree

  1. 1,326 ha Plumtree fire, November 2023 where it started 7.6% of the municipality · 1,350 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 3 ha Mangwe fire, 17 September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,620 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 189 ha Mangwe fire, 16 September 2022 1.1% of the municipality · 1,163 ha in total · 4 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).