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Wildfires in Shurugwi

Shurugwi, Zimbabwe, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 20,913 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.0% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 30).

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. Sun 25 High 31° · 29 % · 28 km/h
  2. Mon 26 High 33° · 18 % · 27 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very high 34° · 21 % · 53 km/h
  4. Wed 28 High 28° · 47 % · 40 km/h
  5. Thu 29 High 29° · 37 % · 41 km/h
  6. Fri 30 High 30° · 25 % · 38 km/h
  7. Sat 31 High 29° · 24 % · 41 km/h
  8. Sun 1 High 30° · 25 % · 35 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

20,913
hectares burned
6.0 %
of its area
20
fires
3,482
km²

How many times has Shurugwi burned?

Shurugwi has burned 20 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Shurugwi fire, 25 September 2026, with 1,129 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 9× 26
20
fires
6
years with fire
20,913
cumulative ha
25 Sept 2026
most recent

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 Shurugwi

  1. 1,129 ha Shurugwi fire, 25 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,124 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,097 ha Shurugwi fire, 17 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,092 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,013 ha Shurugwi fire, 16 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,008 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 1,557 ha Shurugwi fire, 14 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,549 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 1,106 ha Shurugwi fire, 10 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,100 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,410 ha Shurugwi fire, 3 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,403 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,015 ha Shurugwi fire, 3 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,009 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,021 ha Shurugwi fire, 2 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,015 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 2,792 ha Shurugwi fire, August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,774 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 1,218 ha Shurugwi fire, September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,212 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 0 ha Gweru fire, September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,764 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,032 ha Shurugwi fire, 22 September 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,025 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,397 ha Shurugwi fire, 21 September 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,389 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 417 ha Gweru fire, 21 August 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,221 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 359 ha Gweru fire, July 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,616 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 1,816 ha Shurugwi fire, 8 October 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,805 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 1,048 ha Shurugwi fire, 4 October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,043 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 0 ha Gweru fire, 24 September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,056 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 1,251 ha Shurugwi fire, July 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,423 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 236 ha Gweru fire, October 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,060 ha in total · 1 day

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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