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Wildfires in Njombe

Njombe, Tanzania: 56 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 6 districts since 2016, burning 282,886 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kilombero in 3 November 2021, with 13,450 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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
282,886ha
Since 2016
Of the region
14%
20,770 km²
fires
56
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
5
of 6
Largest fire
13,450ha
Kilombero · 3 November 2021
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 61 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 22° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 22° · 61 % · 35 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 23° · 55 % · 33 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 23° · 59 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 23° · 51 % · 38 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 22° · 44 % · 43 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 22° · 46 % · 39 km/h
  9. Sat 7 Low 24° · 28 % · 40 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. Njombe 100,938 ha · 29 %
  2. Makete 94,109 ha · 23 %
  3. Ludewa 67,167 ha · 11 %
  4. Njombe Urban 18,381 ha · 5.2 %
  5. Wanging'ombe 6,142 ha · 1.8 %

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
2026939,711 Ludewa 8,651 ha
20251569,767 Njombe 10,138 ha
202414,840 Makete 4,840 ha
202313,673 Makete 3,673 ha
202213,618 Njombe 3,618 ha
2021841,213 Kilombero 13,450 ha
2020417,806 Njombe 10,363 ha
2019633,470 Makete 11,715 ha
201813,283 Njombe 3,283 ha
2017310,590 Njombe 4,562 ha
2016958,766 Njombe 10,655 ha

All fires in Njombe · 58

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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