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Wildfires in Simiyu

Simiyu, Tanzania: 80 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 5 districts since 2016, burning 449,380 hectares inside the region. The largest was Bariadi in June 2016, with 19,218 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 48).

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
449,380ha
Since 2016
Of the region
18%
24,811 km²
fires
80
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 5
Largest fire
19,218ha
Bariadi · June 2016
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 High 33° · 22 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 34° · 13 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 34° · 13 % · 40 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 33° · 23 % · 41 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 33° · 23 % · 40 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 44 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 47 % · 37 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 58 % · 35 km/h

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. Bariadi 205,876 ha · 37 %
  2. Meatu 147,893 ha · 16 %
  3. Itilima 95,612 ha · 20 %

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
20261360,562 Serengeti 11,359 ha
2025961,667 Itilima 19,032 ha
2024822,912 Bariadi 6,327 ha
202324,511 Bariadi 3,222 ha
2022416,545 Meatu 4,849 ha
20211058,772 Bariadi 8,221 ha
202016104,419 Serengeti 16,499 ha
2019219,134 Itilima 15,377 ha
2018628,529 Bariadi 6,333 ha
20161072,328 Bariadi 19,218 ha

All fires in Simiyu · 80

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).