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Wildfires in Rushinga

Rushinga, Zimbabwe, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 9,079 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.9% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 54).

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. Thu 22 High 38° · 22 % · 29 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Extreme 40° · 17 % · 52 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Extreme 35° · 26 % · 54 km/h
  4. Sun 25 High 32° · 37 % · 51 km/h
  5. Mon 26 High 34° · 22 % · 37 km/h
  6. Tue 27 High 36° · 21 % · 31 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 21 % · 49 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very high 34° · 23 % · 43 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

9,079
hectares burned
3.9 %
of its area
8
fires
2,340
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Rushinga

  1. 1,158 ha Rushinga fire, 20 October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,152 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,505 ha Rushinga fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,497 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 1,338 ha Rushinga fire, 15 September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,332 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,407 ha Rushinga fire, 13 September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,400 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,057 ha Rushinga fire, September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,051 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,570 ha Rushinga fire, October 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,563 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 28 ha Mount Darwin fire, 22 October 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,927 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 1,015 ha Rushinga fire, September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,010 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).