Wildfires in Mwanza
Mwanza, Tanzania: one fire with a page has entered 1 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 3,270 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sengerema in June 2026, with 3,270 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).
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
- 3,270ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.1%
- 24,807 km²
- fires
- 1
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 7
- Largest fire
- 3,270ha
- Sengerema · June 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 28 Very low 26° · 74 % · 26 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 24° · 75 % · 24 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 25° · 68 % · 24 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 25° · 71 % · 26 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 26° · 65 % · 24 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 26° · 61 % · 34 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 26° · 63 % · 43 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 26° · 66 % · 26 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Sengerema 3,270 ha · 1.0 %
Largest recorded fires
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 3,270 | Sengerema 3,270 ha |
All fires in Mwanza · 1
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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