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Wildfires in Kigoma

Kigoma, Tanzania: 101 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 633,032 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kibondo in 5 August 2026, with 88,935 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 5).

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
633,032ha
Since 2016
Of the region
13%
48,093 km²
fires
101
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
2
of 7
Largest fire
88,935ha
Kibondo · 5 August 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 6 Moderate 31° · 32 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sat 7 Low 28° · 59 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sun 8 Very low 28° · 56 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 9 Very low 29° · 52 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 10 Very low 26° · 70 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 11 Very low 26° · 67 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 12 Very low 26° · 72 % · 31 km/h
  8. Fri 13 Very low 26° · 93 % · 30 km/h

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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. Kibondo 599,239 ha · 44 %
  2. Kasulu 33,794 ha · 4.7 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (3,000 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
202620193,951 Kibondo 88,935 ha
2025866,622 Kibondo 28,709 ha
2024517,137 Kibondo 3,781 ha
2023733,243 Kibondo 9,013 ha
2022939,556 Kibondo 8,841 ha
2021427,075 Kibondo 9,214 ha
20201461,910 Kibondo 13,631 ha
2019859,541 Kibondo 14,412 ha
2018414,906 Kibondo 5,034 ha
2017736,074 Kibondo 9,036 ha
20161583,018 Kibondo 11,107 ha

All fires in Kigoma · 101

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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