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Wildfires in Sanyati

Sanyati, Zimbabwe, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 10,818 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 43).

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. Sat 24 Extreme 37° · 17 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 35° · 20 % · 33 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 36° · 22 % · 24 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 15 % · 55 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very high 36° · 20 % · 49 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very high 35° · 27 % · 44 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very high 35° · 17 % · 44 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very high 34° · 17 % · 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

10,818
hectares burned
2.2 %
of its area
9
fires
4,861
km²

How many times has Sanyati burned?

Sanyati has burned 9 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Sanyati fire, 17 October 2026, with 1,750 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,818 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,777 hectares, 2.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
9
fires
7
years with fire
10,818
cumulative ha
9,777
distinct ha

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 Sanyati

  1. 1,750 ha Sanyati fire, 17 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,737 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,131 ha Sanyati fire, 16 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,124 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 1,263 ha Sanyati fire, 9 October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,258 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,246 ha Sanyati fire, 8 October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,241 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,226 ha Sanyati fire, August 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,219 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 2,157 ha Sanyati fire, September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,147 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,023 ha Sanyati fire, August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,017 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 5 ha Makonde fire, 15 October 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,337 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,017 ha Sanyati fire, July 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,011 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).

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