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Wildfires in Mbeya

Mbeya, Tanzania: 186 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 11 districts since 2016, burning 901,646 hectares inside the region. The largest was Iringa in 19 August 2026, with 63,126 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 55).

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
901,646ha
Since 2016
Of the region
15%
61,806 km²
fires
186
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
5
of 11
Largest fire
63,126ha
Iringa · 19 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. Thu 22 High 32° · 31 % · 33 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Extreme 33° · 12 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Extreme 33° · 13 % · 61 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Extreme 31° · 23 % · 53 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very high 30° · 31 % · 57 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very high 32° · 22 % · 55 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Extreme 32° · 19 % · 50 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Extreme 32° · 22 % · 48 km/h
  9. Fri 30 High 31° · 31 % · 46 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. Mbarali 390,271 ha · 27 %
  2. Chunya 326,918 ha · 19 %
  3. Songwe 180,416 ha · 16 %
  4. Rungwe 3,451 ha · 1.6 %
  5. Kyela 590 ha · 0.8 %

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
202624170,918 Iringa 63,126 ha
20251078,971 Chunya 32,363 ha
20241358,336 Chunya 16,571 ha
2023716,725 Mbarali 5,269 ha
2022944,620 Chunya 11,722 ha
20211980,172 Mbarali 9,269 ha
20201976,070 Mbarali 11,652 ha
201924113,326 Chunya 17,174 ha
20181131,443 Chunya 5,797 ha
201722105,471 Iringa 14,015 ha
201628125,594 Mbarali 18,779 ha

All fires in Mbeya · 186

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).