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Wildfires in Zvimba

Zvimba, Zimbabwe, has had 86 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 100,724 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very high 36° · 18 % · 37 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 32° · 27 % · 49 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 30° · 30 % · 45 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 31° · 23 % · 37 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 33° · 16 % · 33 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 33° · 20 % · 42 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 31° · 30 % · 43 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 31° · 16 % · 39 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

100,724
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
86
fires
6,112
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Zvimba

  1. 1,013 ha Zvimba fire, 17 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,006 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,041 ha Zvimba fire, 16 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,034 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 84 ha Makonde fire, 14 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 406 ha Zvimba fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 1,031 ha Zvimba fire, 14 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,027 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,212 ha Zvimba fire, 12 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,203 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 1,140 ha Zvimba fire, 31 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,134 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,297 ha Zvimba fire, 22 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,288 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 1,971 ha Zvimba fire, 9 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,960 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 1,012 ha Zvimba fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,005 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 1,090 ha Zvimba fire, 21 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,085 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,189 ha Zvimba fire, 18 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,180 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 872 ha Zvimba fire, 16 September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,351 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 1,053 ha Zvimba fire, 14 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,045 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 1,710 ha Zvimba fire, 14 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,700 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 1,147 ha Zvimba fire, 14 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,138 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 1,293 ha Zvimba fire, 12 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,286 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 1,103 ha Zvimba fire, September 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,095 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 1,312 ha Zvimba fire, 30 August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,306 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 1,336 ha Zvimba fire, 22 August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,327 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 1,163 ha Zvimba fire, 30 July 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,157 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 1,317 ha Zvimba fire, 2 July 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,308 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 1,039 ha Zvimba fire, June 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,033 ha in total · 1 day
  24. 485 ha Makonde fire, 15 October 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 1,268 ha in total · 1 day
  25. 1,499 ha Zvimba fire, 10 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,488 ha in total · 1 day
  26. 1,886 ha Zvimba fire, 8 October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,873 ha in total · 3 days
  27. 1,553 ha Zvimba fire, 8 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,546 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 1,020 ha Zvimba fire, 7 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,012 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 2,090 ha Zvimba fire, 6 October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,074 ha in total · 4 days
  30. 1,554 ha Zvimba fire, 2 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,545 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 1,074 ha Zvimba fire, 22 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,068 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 1,787 ha Zvimba fire, 17 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,780 ha in total · 4 days
  33. 1,101 ha Zvimba fire, 6 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,093 ha in total · 1 day
  34. 1,083 ha Zvimba fire, August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,077 ha in total · 6 days
  35. 1,118 ha Zvimba fire, September 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,110 ha in total · 3 days
  36. 1,355 ha Zvimba fire, 14 August 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,350 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 1,023 ha Zvimba fire, 10 August 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,019 ha in total · 1 day
  38. 1,058 ha Zvimba fire, October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,053 ha in total · 6 days
  39. 81 ha Makonde fire, 30 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,431 ha in total · 2 days
  40. 1,194 ha Zvimba fire, 28 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,189 ha in total · 3 days
  41. 1,431 ha Zvimba fire, 27 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,420 ha in total · 4 days
  42. 7 ha Makonde fire, 27 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,510 ha in total · 5 days
  43. 60 ha Chegutu fire, 20 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,170 ha in total · 1 day
  44. 1,115 ha Zvimba fire, 15 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,188 ha in total · 1 day
  45. 441 ha Makonde fire, 9 September 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,311 ha in total · 5 days
  46. 1,171 ha Zvimba fire, 1 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,436 ha in total · 1 day
  47. 1,537 ha Zvimba fire, 20 August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,525 ha in total · 1 day
  48. 1,356 ha Zvimba fire, 8 August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,348 ha in total · 6 days
  49. 1,007 ha Zvimba fire, 2 August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,000 ha in total · 1 day
  50. 1,120 ha Zvimba fire, 26 July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,113 ha in total · 2 days
  51. 1,160 ha Zvimba fire, 23 July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,152 ha in total · 2 days
  52. 1,063 ha Zvimba fire, 18 July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,057 ha in total · 4 days
  53. 1,452 ha Zvimba fire, 12 July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,444 ha in total · 5 days
  54. 1,208 ha Zvimba fire, 12 July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,199 ha in total · 1 day
  55. 1,460 ha Zvimba fire, 6 July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,454 ha in total · 5 days
  56. 2,109 ha Zvimba fire, June 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,097 ha in total · 2 days
  57. 2,491 ha Zvimba fire, October 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,472 ha in total · 4 days
  58. 116 ha Makonde fire, 13 September 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,085 ha in total · 5 days
  59. 1,241 ha Zvimba fire, 12 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,232 ha in total · 5 days
  60. 1,064 ha Zvimba fire, 8 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,057 ha in total · 5 days
  61. 4 ha Makonde fire, 15 October 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,337 ha in total · 3 days
  62. 927 ha Zvimba fire, 29 September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,013 ha in total · 4 days
  63. 1,954 ha Zvimba fire, 14 September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,941 ha in total · 5 days
  64. 1,947 ha Zvimba fire, 14 September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,938 ha in total · 1 day
  65. 1 ha Chegutu fire, 13 September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,988 ha in total · 4 days
  66. 1,157 ha Zvimba fire, 13 September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,152 ha in total · 2 days
  67. 1,642 ha Zvimba fire, 7 September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,633 ha in total · 3 days
  68. 1,120 ha Zvimba fire, 4 September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,115 ha in total · 1 day
  69. 1,439 ha Zvimba fire, 28 August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,442 ha in total · 2 days
  70. 1,298 ha Zvimba fire, 24 August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,292 ha in total · 1 day
  71. 1,129 ha Zvimba fire, 22 August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,123 ha in total · 5 days
  72. 1,413 ha Zvimba fire, 18 August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,405 ha in total · 2 days
  73. 1,022 ha Zvimba fire, 17 August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,018 ha in total · 2 days
  74. 280 ha Mazowe fire, 17 August 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,165 ha in total · 2 days
  75. 1,615 ha Zvimba fire, 9 August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,607 ha in total · 1 day
  76. 1,012 ha Zvimba fire, July 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,005 ha in total · 1 day
  77. 634 ha Zvimba fire, November 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,211 ha in total · 2 days
  78. 305 ha Mazowe fire, October 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,024 ha in total · 3 days
  79. 2,372 ha Zvimba fire, 7 October 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,356 ha in total · 3 days
  80. 1,085 ha Zvimba fire, 7 October 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,082 ha in total · 2 days
  81. 1,908 ha Zvimba fire, 6 October 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,899 ha in total · 2 days
  82. 1,269 ha Zvimba fire, 27 September 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,264 ha in total · 1 day
  83. 1,052 ha Zvimba fire, 16 September 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,046 ha in total · 2 days
  84. 1,062 ha Zvimba fire, 15 August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,054 ha in total · 1 day
  85. 1,339 ha Zvimba fire, 7 August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,331 ha in total · 1 day
  86. 636 ha Zvimba fire, 4 August 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,173 ha in total · 1 day
  87. 1,068 ha Zvimba fire, 22 July 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,060 ha in total · 4 days
  88. 1,121 ha Zvimba fire, 18 July 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,113 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).