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Wildfires in Katavi

Katavi, Tanzania: 280 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 4 districts since 2016, burning 1,673,270 hectares inside the region. The largest was Mlele in 15 August 2016, with 46,634 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 31).

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
1,673,270ha
Since 2016
Of the region
35%
47,755 km²
fires
280
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 4
Largest fire
46,634ha
Mlele · 15 August 2016
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 High 33° · 21 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 32° · 24 % · 31 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 33° · 25 % · 36 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 34° · 25 % · 37 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 33° · 28 % · 30 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 57 % · 32 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 77 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 81 % · 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. Mlele 1,372,098 ha · 46 %
  2. Uvinza 172,632 ha · 17 %
  3. Mpanda 128,540 ha · 7.5 %

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
202646249,886 Mlele 22,683 ha
202521131,541 Uvinza 23,841 ha
20241767,748 Mlele 10,656 ha
20231152,775 Mlele 9,478 ha
202224152,701 Uvinza 18,101 ha
202122114,790 Mlele 9,816 ha
202031167,310 Mlele 11,041 ha
201925179,658 Mlele 16,834 ha
20181884,180 Mpanda 11,969 ha
201730213,382 Mlele 28,388 ha
201635259,301 Mlele 46,634 ha

All fires in Katavi · 280

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).

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