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Wildfires in Zaka

Zaka, Zimbabwe, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 850 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 Moderate 29° · 36 % · 44 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 26° · 65 % · 38 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 31° · 36 % · 29 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 34° · 26 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 37° · 18 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 30° · 42 % · 49 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 28° · 37 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 26° · 38 % · 37 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

850
hectares burned
0.3 %
of its area
2
fires
3,141
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Zaka

  1. 170 ha Masvingo fire, 17 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,742 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 679 ha Zaka fire, September 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,073 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).