Wildfires in Kagera
Kagera, Tanzania: 14 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 9 districts since 2016, burning 53,400 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kyerwa in July 2020, with 5,811 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).
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
- 53,400ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.5%
- 36,644 km²
- fires
- 14
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 6
- of 9
- Largest fire
- 5,811ha
- Kyerwa · July 2020
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sun 25 Very low 26° · 58 % · 26 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 26° · 54 % · 38 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 25° · 70 % · 25 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 24° · 69 % · 29 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 25° · 69 % · 24 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 24° · 68 % · 34 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 25° · 65 % · 30 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 24° · 75 % · 25 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 4×Biharamulo12,057 ha
- 3×Missenyi14,504 ha
- 3×Kyerwa11,326 ha
- 3×Karagwe7,847 ha
- 3×Ngara6,256 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 5,811 haKyerwaJuly 2020 · 5 days of 6,238 ha in total
- 5,070 haMissenyi16 August 2026 · 25 days
- 4,833 haMissenyi25 August 2026 · 18 days
- 4,702 haKaragweJuly 2018 · 10 days
- 4,601 haMissenyi5 August 2026 · 14 days
- 4,183 haKyerwa18 June 2026 · 9 days
- 3,700 haBiharamuloJune 2019 · 5 days
- 3,559 haBiharamuloJuly 2020 · 6 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 7 | 26,227 | Missenyi 5,070 ha |
| 2020 | 3 | 12,616 | Kyerwa 5,811 ha |
| 2019 | 2 | 6,745 | Biharamulo 3,700 ha |
| 2018 | 2 | 7,812 | Karagwe 4,702 ha |
All fires in Kagera · 14
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 4,833 haMissenyi25 August 2026 · 18 days
- 5,070 haMissenyi16 August 2026 · 25 days
- 3,111 haBiharamuloAugust 2026 · 9 days
- 4,601 haMissenyi5 August 2026 · 14 days
- 3,098 haBiharamuloJuly 2026 · 9 days
- 4,183 haKyerwa18 June 2026 · 9 days
- 1,332 haKyerwa13 June 2026 · 9 days of 3,083 ha in total
- 3,246 haNgaraJuly 2020 · 4 days
- 3,559 haBiharamuloJuly 2020 · 6 days
- 5,811 haKyerwaJuly 2020 · 5 days of 6,238 ha in total
- 3,700 haBiharamuloJune 2019 · 5 days
- 3,045 haKaragweJune 2019 · 7 days
- 3,110 haNgaraJuly 2018 · 6 days
- 4,702 haKaragweJuly 2018 · 10 days
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).
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