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Wildfires in Umzingwane

Umzingwane, Zimbabwe, has had 29 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 45,415 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 23).

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. Fri 23 Very high 32° · 22 % · 43 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 29° · 43 % · 46 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 32° · 20 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 34° · 14 % · 31 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 14 % · 41 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 31° · 32 % · 44 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 30° · 28 % · 46 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 28° · 23 % · 45 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

45,415
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
29
fires
2,795
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Umzingwane

  1. 4,449 ha Umzingwane fire, 23 September 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,431 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 518 ha Insiza fire, 20 September 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,260 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,730 ha Umzingwane fire, 18 September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,721 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,247 ha Umzingwane fire, 16 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,241 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 2,032 ha Umzingwane fire, 14 September 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,043 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 3,929 ha Umzingwane fire, 4 September 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,913 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1,019 ha Umzingwane fire, 3 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,016 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 2,367 ha Umzingwane fire, 7 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,359 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 988 ha Umzingwane fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,010 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 931 ha Umzingwane fire, 19 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,190 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 1,753 ha Umzingwane fire, 19 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,746 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 1,043 ha Umzingwane fire, 9 July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,040 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,399 ha Umzingwane fire, June 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,394 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 1,035 ha Umzingwane fire, August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,030 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 1,196 ha Umzingwane fire, September 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,191 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 320 ha Insiza fire, 3 October 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 1,088 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 9 ha Insiza fire, 3 October 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,314 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 2,077 ha Umzingwane fire, October 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,209 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 4,875 ha Umzingwane fire, September 2022 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,856 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 1,627 ha Umzingwane fire, September 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,622 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 2,129 ha Umzingwane fire, September 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,122 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 1,641 ha Insiza fire, 14 September 2018 0.6% of the municipality · 2,174 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 1,403 ha Umzingwane fire, September 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,397 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 323 ha Insiza fire, 5 September 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 1,154 ha Umzingwane fire, 18 August 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,150 ha in total · 3 days
  26. 1,395 ha Umzingwane fire, 7 August 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,388 ha in total · 2 days
  27. 1,639 ha Umzingwane fire, 6 August 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,727 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 1,178 ha Umzingwane fire, 4 August 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,173 ha in total · 3 days
  29. 6 ha Matobo fire, August 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,099 ha in total · 2 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).