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Wildfires in Ruvuma

Ruvuma, Tanzania: 110 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 6 districts since 2016, burning 545,466 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ulanga in 14 September 2021, with 31,619 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 35).

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 4 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
545,466ha
Since 2016
Of the region
8.6%
63,150 km²
fires
110
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 6
Largest fire
31,619ha
Ulanga · 14 September 2021
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 27 High 34° · 25 % · 32 km/h
  2. Wed 28 High 34° · 27 % · 36 km/h
  3. Thu 29 High 35° · 26 % · 33 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 42 % · 37 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 55 % · 24 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 78 % · 29 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 48 % · 30 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Low 31° · 39 % · 30 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. Namtumbo 250,149 ha · 11 %
  2. Songea 144,413 ha · 10 %
  3. Tunduru 82,116 ha · 4.4 %
  4. Nyasa 70,413 ha · 23 %
  5. Mbinga 10,314 ha · 2.1 %
  6. Songea Urban 563 ha · 1.0 %

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
202622112,425 Namtumbo 11,721 ha
202530119,451 Namtumbo 11,354 ha
202413,379 Songea 3,379 ha
202313,262 Namtumbo 3,262 ha
2022411,845 Namtumbo 4,785 ha
20211072,977 Ulanga 31,619 ha
2020634,589 Songea 15,543 ha
20191468,986 Ulanga 15,025 ha
2018413,401 Nyasa 4,570 ha
20171066,842 Songea 22,243 ha
20161250,810 Songea 6,824 ha

All fires in Ruvuma · 114

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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