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Wildfires in Iringa

Iringa, Tanzania: 98 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 5 districts since 2016, burning 1,169,019 hectares inside the region. The largest was Mbarali in 4 September 2021, with 133,512 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 39).

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

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

hectares burned
1,169,019ha
Since 2016
Of the region
33%
35,327 km²
fires
98
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 5
Largest fire
133,512ha
Mbarali · 4 September 2021
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 High 30° · 17 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 28° · 18 % · 44 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 26° · 29 % · 48 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 26° · 35 % · 47 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 27° · 23 % · 40 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 30° · 19 % · 42 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 30° · 26 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 28° · 31 % · 33 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Iringa 1,091,742 ha · 58 %
  2. Kilolo 47,496 ha · 5.1 %
  3. Mufindi 32,875 ha · 4.3 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202610154,509 Iringa 75,670 ha
2025839,041 Iringa 11,896 ha
2024891,551 Iringa 54,838 ha
2023976,269 Iringa 43,074 ha
202227,411 Chunya 4,157 ha
202113193,043 Mbarali 133,512 ha
202021108,292 Iringa 27,180 ha
20196127,806 Iringa 85,115 ha
20184130,564 Iringa 113,248 ha
2017745,449 Iringa 25,432 ha
201611198,178 Iringa 129,473 ha

All fires in Iringa · 99

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

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).