Wildfires in Arusha
Arusha, Tanzania: 21 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 51,030 hectares inside the region. The largest was Longido in August 2020, with 6,763 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 45).
Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 51,030ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.3%
- 39,045 km²
- fires
- 21
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 7
- Largest fire
- 6,763ha
- Longido · August 2020
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 High 35° · 22 % · 33 km/h
- Sat 24 Very high 35° · 16 % · 41 km/h
- Sun 25 Very high 35° · 14 % · 48 km/h
- Mon 26 Extreme 34° · 30 % · 59 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 34° · 29 % · 32 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 32° · 35 % · 36 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 32° · 45 % · 33 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 31° · 50 % · 29 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Ngorongoro 42,617 ha · 2.7 %
- Longido 6,763 ha · 0.8 %
- Monduli 1,650 ha · 0.2 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 16×Ngorongoro42,617 ha
- 4×Monduli1,650 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 6,763 haLongidoAugust 2020 · 5 days
- 6,201 haNgorongoro10 September 2025 · 4 days
- 6,033 haNgorongoroJuly 2026 · 12 days of 9,408 ha in total
- 5,630 haNgorongoroOctober 2021 · 4 days
- 5,436 haNgorongoro12 September 2025 · 3 days
- 3,850 haNgorongoroOctober 2024 · 5 days
- 3,100 haNgorongoro18 September 2026 · 13 days
- 2,497 haSerengetiAugust 2024 · 7 days of 4,062 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 12,123 | Ngorongoro 6,033 ha |
| 2025 | 6 | 16,451 | Ngorongoro 6,201 ha |
| 2024 | 3 | 6,349 | Ngorongoro 3,850 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 5,630 | Ngorongoro 5,630 ha |
| 2020 | 5 | 9,185 | Longido 6,763 ha |
| 2016 | 2 | 1,293 | Babati 931 ha |
All fires in Arusha · 21
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 3,100 haNgorongoro18 September 2026 · 13 days
- 2,331 haNgorongoro8 September 2026 · 5 days of 3,092 ha in total
- 6,033 haNgorongoroJuly 2026 · 12 days of 9,408 ha in total
- 659 haSerengeti19 July 2026 · 7 days of 4,112 ha in total
- 2,373 haNgorongoroNovember 2025 · 8 days of 3,050 ha in total
- 1,459 haSerengetiOctober 2025 · 4 days of 7,323 ha in total
- 247 haBabati30 September 2025 · 3 days of 4,345 ha in total
- 5,436 haNgorongoro12 September 2025 · 3 days
- 6,201 haNgorongoro10 September 2025 · 4 days
- 735 haSerengeti28 July 2025 · 7 days of 3,396 ha in total
- 3,850 haNgorongoroOctober 2024 · 5 days
- 2 haBariadiSeptember 2024 · 4 days of 7,825 ha in total
- 2,497 haSerengetiAugust 2024 · 7 days of 4,062 ha in total
- 5,630 haNgorongoroOctober 2021 · 4 days
- 111 haBabati2 October 2020 · 4 days of 4,492 ha in total
- 1,466 haItilima21 August 2020 · 7 days of 3,173 ha in total
- 6,763 haLongidoAugust 2020 · 5 days
- 7 haSerengeti22 July 2020 · 14 days of 49,076 ha in total
- 839 haSerengeti22 July 2020 · 11 days of 3,852 ha in total
- 931 haBabatiNovember 2016 · 3 days of 3,085 ha in total
- 362 haBabatiJuly 2016 · 9 days of 7,105 ha in total
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).