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Wildfires in Lindi

Lindi, Tanzania: 82 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 6 districts since 2016, burning 357,409 hectares inside the region. The largest was Liwale in 25 October 2025, with 23,148 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 27).

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 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
357,409ha
Since 2016
Of the region
5.3%
66,840 km²
fires
82
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 6
Largest fire
23,148ha
Liwale · 25 October 2025
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 42 % · 34 km/h
  2. Wed 28 High 33° · 34 % · 37 km/h
  3. Thu 29 High 34° · 34 % · 35 km/h
  4. Fri 30 High 35° · 33 % · 32 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Moderate 33° · 39 % · 34 km/h
  6. Sun 1 High 34° · 31 % · 44 km/h
  7. Mon 2 High 34° · 27 % · 41 km/h
  8. Tue 3 High 33° · 40 % · 39 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Liwale 333,948 ha · 9.7 %
  2. Kilwa 19,303 ha · 1.3 %
  3. Lindi 5,057 ha · 0.8 %
  4. Nachingwea 3,539 ha · 0.6 %

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
2026621,388 Liwale 6,144 ha
20251471,450 Liwale 23,148 ha
202426,229 Liwale 3,129 ha
202314,380 Liwale 4,380 ha
202227,404 Rufiji 4,270 ha
20211233,675 Liwale 5,699 ha
20201564,043 Liwale 10,929 ha
20191890,506 Liwale 12,181 ha
201829,221 Liwale 5,506 ha
2017940,226 Liwale 14,976 ha
2016313,326 Liwale 5,305 ha

All fires in Lindi · 84

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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