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Wildfires in Shamva

Shamva, Zimbabwe, has had 47 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 52,008 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 37).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very high 38° · 17 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 33° · 28 % · 45 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 31° · 36 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 32° · 19 % · 37 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 34° · 21 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 36° · 19 % · 40 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 32° · 38 % · 39 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 31° · 24 % · 38 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

52,008
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
47
fires
2,709
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Shamva

  1. 70 ha Uzumba Maramba Pfungwe fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,783 ha Shamva fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,449 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 403 ha Shamva fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,097 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 1,286 ha Shamva fire, September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,280 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 316 ha Mount Darwin fire, 31 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,499 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 1,387 ha Shamva fire, August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,380 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 323 ha Bindura fire, 22 September 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 1,168 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 1,492 ha Shamva fire, 18 September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,485 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 1,421 ha Shamva fire, 11 September 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,414 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 287 ha Shamva fire, 1 September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,018 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 1,111 ha Shamva fire, 1 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,104 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 1,030 ha Shamva fire, August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,024 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 1,108 ha Shamva fire, October 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,103 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 606 ha Bindura fire, September 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 2,082 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 1,821 ha Shamva fire, 9 October 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,846 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 1,936 ha Shamva fire, 8 October 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,927 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 89 ha Bindura fire, 2 October 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 6,034 ha in total · 11 days
  18. 1,697 ha Shamva fire, 1 October 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,689 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 1,018 ha Shamva fire, 29 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,012 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 1,004 ha Shamva fire, 28 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,872 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 90 ha Mount Darwin fire, 20 September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,679 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 1,095 ha Shamva fire, 16 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,089 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 393 ha Bindura fire, 13 September 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 1,241 ha in total · 1 day
  24. 1,209 ha Shamva fire, 19 August 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,204 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 1,069 ha Shamva fire, 19 August 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,064 ha in total · 3 days
  26. 1,367 ha Shamva fire, September 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,361 ha in total · 6 days
  27. 1,133 ha Shamva fire, 8 November 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,128 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 1,673 ha Shamva fire, 2 November 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,664 ha in total · 8 days
  29. 1,675 ha Shamva fire, 25 October 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,668 ha in total · 4 days
  30. 1,399 ha Shamva fire, 23 October 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,390 ha in total · 6 days
  31. 166 ha Bindura fire, 19 September 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,532 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 15 ha Mount Darwin fire, 5 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 3,335 ha in total · 2 days
  33. 1,367 ha Shamva fire, September 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,360 ha in total · 3 days
  34. 1,341 ha Shamva fire, August 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,335 ha in total · 4 days
  35. 1,671 ha Shamva fire, July 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,664 ha in total · 2 days
  36. 1,400 ha Shamva fire, 25 September 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,394 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 2,108 ha Shamva fire, 18 September 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,093 ha in total · 4 days
  38. 1,270 ha Shamva fire, 16 September 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,264 ha in total · 3 days
  39. 1,521 ha Shamva fire, 11 September 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,960 ha in total · 6 days
  40. 588 ha Shamva fire, 29 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,144 ha in total · 2 days
  41. 1,806 ha Shamva fire, 24 August 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,797 ha in total · 3 days
  42. 222 ha Mount Darwin fire, 14 September 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 3,764 ha in total · 4 days
  43. 281 ha Mount Darwin fire, 4 September 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,104 ha in total · 1 day
  44. 1,041 ha Shamva fire, September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,037 ha in total · 3 days
  45. 1,612 ha Shamva fire, November 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,603 ha in total · 4 days
  46. 1,981 ha Shamva fire, October 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,968 ha in total · 3 days
  47. 1,317 ha Shamva fire, September 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,307 ha in total · 3 days
  48. 1,082 ha Shamva fire, August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,077 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).