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Wildfires in Umguza

Umguza, Zimbabwe, has had 57 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 136,461 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 42).

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 Very high 33° · 30 % · 52 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 34° · 20 % · 39 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very high 34° · 19 % · 31 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 18 % · 37 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 18 % · 43 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Extreme 33° · 26 % · 49 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Extreme 34° · 16 % · 48 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very high 34° · 20 % · 47 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

136,461
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
57
fires
6,073
km²

How many times has Umguza burned?

Umguza has burned 57 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Umguza fire, 22 October 2026, with 1,278 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 11× 17
  3. 11× 18
  4. 9× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 7× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 8× 26
57
fires
11
years with fire
136,461
cumulative ha
22 Oct 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 Umguza

  1. 1,278 ha Umguza fire, 22 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,268 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 5,444 ha Umguza fire, 18 October 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,420 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,510 ha Umguza fire, 16 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,503 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 192 ha Bubi fire, 16 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,741 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 2 ha Tsholotsho fire, 24 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,863 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 255 ha Bubi fire, 16 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,127 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 18 ha Umzingwane fire, 14 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,043 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,303 ha Umguza fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,295 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 280 ha Bulawayo fire, August 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,188 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 854 ha Bubi fire, July 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 5,302 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 2,160 ha Umguza fire, 11 September 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,153 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 1,144 ha Umguza fire, 5 September 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,141 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 3,074 ha Umguza fire, 5 September 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,065 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 2,132 ha Umguza fire, 4 September 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,125 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 3,059 ha Umguza fire, July 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,045 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 12 ha Bulawayo fire, 13 October 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,170 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 5,270 ha Umguza fire, 12 October 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,255 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 6,897 ha Umguza fire, 7 October 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,867 ha in total · 11 days
  19. 4,697 ha Umguza fire, 6 October 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,667 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 6 ha Bulawayo fire, 4 October 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,343 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 3,848 ha Umguza fire, 5 September 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,835 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 3,417 ha Umguza fire, 5 September 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,398 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 217 ha Bubi fire, 16 October 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,026 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 8,282 ha Umguza fire, October 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 8,255 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 290 ha Lupane fire, 17 August 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,285 ha in total · 3 days
  26. 166 ha Bubi fire, November 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,071 ha in total · 3 days
  27. 18 ha Lupane fire, 14 October 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,158 ha in total · 6 days
  28. 3,032 ha Bubi fire, October 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 9,221 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 2,055 ha Umguza fire, 29 September 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,047 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 7,306 ha Umguza fire, 27 September 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 7,282 ha in total · 5 days
  31. 5,396 ha Umguza fire, 20 September 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,380 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 10,362 ha Umguza fire, 19 September 2019 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 10,329 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 1,492 ha Umguza fire, 19 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,481 ha in total · 1 day
  34. 4,380 ha Umguza fire, August 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,360 ha in total · 6 days
  35. 2,258 ha Umguza fire, 30 October 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,509 ha in total · 3 days
  36. 1,251 ha Umguza fire, 28 October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,248 ha in total · 5 days
  37. 2,513 ha Bubi fire, 14 October 2018 0.4% of the municipality · 3,863 ha in total · 5 days
  38. 1,968 ha Umguza fire, 13 October 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,957 ha in total · 2 days
  39. 2,401 ha Umguza fire, 9 October 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,388 ha in total · 5 days
  40. 1 ha Lupane fire, 4 October 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 26,727 ha in total · 29 days
  41. 918 ha Umguza fire, 20 September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,250 ha in total · 2 days
  42. 1,145 ha Umguza fire, 18 September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,138 ha in total · 3 days
  43. 927 ha Umguza fire, 14 September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,672 ha in total · 4 days
  44. 5,283 ha Umguza fire, 2 September 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,249 ha in total · 5 days
  45. 95 ha Umzingwane fire, 6 August 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,727 ha in total · 3 days
  46. 7,175 ha Umguza fire, 15 October 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 7,141 ha in total · 4 days
  47. 3,342 ha Umguza fire, 11 October 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,995 ha in total · 8 days
  48. 1,306 ha Umguza fire, 3 October 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,302 ha in total · 2 days
  49. 1,181 ha Bubi fire, 22 September 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 3,913 ha in total · 6 days
  50. 1,010 ha Umguza fire, 15 September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,006 ha in total · 3 days
  51. 1,551 ha Umguza fire, 14 September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,545 ha in total · 2 days
  52. 1,068 ha Bubi fire, 13 September 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 5,403 ha in total · 6 days
  53. 1,205 ha Umguza fire, 12 September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,200 ha in total · 4 days
  54. 5,981 ha Umguza fire, 12 September 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,958 ha in total · 6 days
  55. 1,138 ha Umguza fire, 23 August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,131 ha in total · 1 day
  56. 386 ha Umguza fire, 16 August 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,094 ha in total · 4 days
  57. 2,509 ha Umguza fire, July 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,501 ha in total · 5 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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