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Wildfires in Tsholotsho

Tsholotsho, Zimbabwe, has had 23 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 38,453 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 44).

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 29 Very high 34° · 19 % · 41 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very high 32° · 16 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very high 35° · 18 % · 34 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very high 36° · 18 % · 32 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very high 36° · 13 % · 33 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Extreme 36° · 15 % · 35 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Extreme 37° · 16 % · 42 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very high 38° · 18 % · 32 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

38,453
hectares burned
4.9 %
of its area
23
fires
7,786
km²

How many times has Tsholotsho burned?

Tsholotsho has burned 23 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Tsholotsho fire, October 2026, with 1,150 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 38,453 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 33,785 hectares, 4.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 4× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 4× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
23
fires
7
years with fire
38,453
cumulative ha
33,785
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 Tsholotsho

  1. 1,150 ha Tsholotsho fire, October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,142 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,875 ha Tsholotsho fire, 24 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,863 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,506 ha Tsholotsho fire, 13 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,496 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,788 ha Tsholotsho fire, 1 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,777 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,467 ha Tsholotsho fire, 12 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,460 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 3,744 ha Lupane fire, 5 October 2022 0.5% of the municipality · 23,883 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 1,042 ha Tsholotsho fire, 3 October 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,037 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 1,846 ha Tsholotsho fire, 1 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,837 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 223 ha Lupane fire, 22 July 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,371 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 1,235 ha Tsholotsho fire, October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,231 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 1,084 ha Tsholotsho fire, 30 September 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,080 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 1,747 ha Tsholotsho fire, 29 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,741 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 2,021 ha Tsholotsho fire, 12 September 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,014 ha in total · 12 days
  14. 1,940 ha Tsholotsho fire, August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,933 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 1,856 ha Tsholotsho fire, 7 October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,847 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 1,601 ha Tsholotsho fire, 6 October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,596 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 2,614 ha Tsholotsho fire, 24 September 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,605 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 1,282 ha Tsholotsho fire, 14 September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,274 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 1,707 ha Tsholotsho fire, October 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,701 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 1,099 ha Lupane fire, 17 September 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,000 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 1,222 ha Tsholotsho fire, October 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,218 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 333 ha Lupane fire, 25 July 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,570 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 4,071 ha Tsholotsho fire, July 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,700 ha in total · 7 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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