Wildfires in Rukwa
Rukwa, Tanzania: 14 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 4 districts since 2016, burning 59,811 hectares inside the region. The largest was Nkasi in 19 August 2026, with 9,795 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).
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
- 59,811ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.1%
- 27,936 km²
- fires
- 14
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 4
- Largest fire
- 9,795ha
- Nkasi · 19 August 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 10 Low 27° · 37 % · 29 km/h
- Wed 11 Very low 25° · 46 % · 30 km/h
- Thu 12 Very low 23° · 60 % · 23 km/h
- Fri 13 Very low 21° · 70 % · 31 km/h
- Sat 14 Very low 23° · 62 % · 36 km/h
- Sun 15 Very low 24° · 57 % · 30 km/h
- Mon 16 Very low 23° · 65 % · 36 km/h
- Tue 17 Very low 22° · 69 % · 37 km/h
Burning now in the region
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Nkasi 59,564 ha · 6.0 %
- Sumbawanga Urban 247 ha · 0.2 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (3,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 14×Nkasi59,564 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 9,795 haNkasi19 August 2026 · 15 days
- 9,033 haNkasi29 July 2026 · 19 days
- 8,312 haNkasiJuly 2026 · 24 days
- 4,601 haNkasiJuly 2018 · 6 days
- 4,419 haNkasiAugust 2017 · 9 days
- 3,637 haNkasi19 May 2026 · 17 days
- 3,554 haNkasi October 2026 · 4 days
- 3,266 haNkasi23 May 2026 · 4 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Rukwa · 14
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 3,554 haNkasi October 2026 · 4 days
- 9,795 haNkasi19 August 2026 · 15 days
- 9,033 haNkasi29 July 2026 · 19 days
- 8,312 haNkasiJuly 2026 · 24 days
- 3,266 haNkasi23 May 2026 · 4 days
- 3,637 haNkasi19 May 2026 · 17 days
- 3,214 haNkasiJuly 2023 · 11 days
- 3,192 haNkasiJuly 2023 · 7 days
- 19 haMpanda4 July 2022 · 7 days
- 3,069 haNkasi23 July 2019 · 6 days
- 558 haMpandaJuly 2019 · 9 days
- 3,142 haNkasi13 July 2019 · 9 days
- 4,601 haNkasiJuly 2018 · 6 days
- 4,419 haNkasiAugust 2017 · 9 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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