Wildfires in Mtwara
Mtwara, Tanzania: 2 fires with a page have entered 1 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 28,209 hectares inside the region. The largest was Mtwara in November 2025, with 24,527 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).
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
- 28,209ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.6%
- 17,843 km²
- fires
- 2
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 7
- Largest fire
- 24,527ha
- Mtwara · November 2025
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Thu 29 Moderate 33° · 38 % · 29 km/h
- Fri 30 Low 30° · 49 % · 29 km/h
- Sat 31 Moderate 31° · 38 % · 36 km/h
- Sun 1 Moderate 30° · 47 % · 37 km/h
- Mon 2 High 32° · 38 % · 38 km/h
- Tue 3 High 33° · 36 % · 43 km/h
- Wed 4 High 33° · 35 % · 42 km/h
- Thu 5 High 33° · 31 % · 43 km/h
Burning now in the region
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Mtwara 28,209 ha · 7.6 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×Mtwara28,209 ha
Largest recorded fires
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Mtwara · 2
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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