Wildfires in Manyara
Manyara, Tanzania: 20 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 6 districts since 2016, burning 82,465 hectares inside the region. The largest was Babati in 19 September 2025, with 7,034 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 50).
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
- 82,465ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.7%
- 47,259 km²
- fires
- 20
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 6
- Largest fire
- 7,034ha
- Babati · 19 September 2025
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 28 Very high 33° · 25 % · 39 km/h
- Thu 29 Very high 34° · 25 % · 41 km/h
- Fri 30 Very high 33° · 25 % · 35 km/h
- Sat 31 Low 29° · 43 % · 47 km/h
- Sun 1 Low 29° · 46 % · 47 km/h
- Mon 2 Moderate 30° · 40 % · 49 km/h
- Tue 3 Moderate 29° · 47 % · 39 km/h
- Wed 4 Moderate 31° · 39 % · 46 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
- 7,034 haBabati19 September 2025 · 5 days
- 6,791 haBabatiJuly 2016 · 10 days
- 6,062 haBabatiJune 2021 · 10 days
- 5,848 haBabati11 September 2020 · 6 days of 6,416 ha in total
- 5,278 haBabati4 October 2020 · 5 days
- 5,036 haBabatiJuly 2017 · 10 days
- 5,001 haBabatiJuly 2021 · 5 days
- 4,411 haBabati2 October 2020 · 4 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Manyara · 20
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 3,329 haBabatiSeptember 2026 · 7 days
- 4,127 haBabati30 September 2025 · 3 days of 4,345 ha in total
- 4,396 haBabati26 September 2025 · 10 days of 4,847 ha in total
- 7,034 haBabati19 September 2025 · 5 days
- 137 haKondoaAugust 2024 · 7 days of 4,189 ha in total
- 3,238 haBabatiJuly 2024 · 8 days
- 5,001 haBabatiJuly 2021 · 5 days
- 6,062 haBabatiJune 2021 · 10 days
- 5,278 haBabati4 October 2020 · 5 days
- 4,411 haBabati2 October 2020 · 4 days
- 3,570 haBabati25 September 2020 · 5 days
- 1,847 haSimanjiroSeptember 2020 · 6 days of 3,196 ha in total
- 5,848 haBabati11 September 2020 · 6 days of 6,416 ha in total
- 3,312 haBabatiJuly 2020 · 11 days
- 3,464 haBabatiJuly 2019 · 5 days
- 5,036 haBabatiJuly 2017 · 10 days
- 2,175 haBabatiNovember 2016 · 5 days of 3,085 ha in total
- 3,866 haBabati14 August 2016 · 2 days
- 3,541 haBabati2 August 2016 · 3 days
- 6,791 haBabatiJuly 2016 · 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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