Wildfires in Bulawayo
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe: 4 fires with a page have entered 1 of its 1 districts since 2016, burning 3,759 hectares inside the region. The largest was Bulawayo in 4 October 2022, with 1,343 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 38).
Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 3,759ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 6.9%
- 548 km²
- fires
- 4
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 1
- Largest fire
- 1,343ha
- Bulawayo · 4 October 2022
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Very high 30° · 37 % · 49 km/h
- Sun 25 Very high 33° · 22 % · 39 km/h
- Mon 26 Very high 34° · 18 % · 32 km/h
- Tue 27 Very high 35° · 18 % · 49 km/h
- Wed 28 High 31° · 25 % · 38 km/h
- Thu 29 High 28° · 35 % · 42 km/h
- Fri 30 Very high 30° · 20 % · 46 km/h
- Sat 31 Very high 32° · 23 % · 45 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Bulawayo 3,759 ha · 6.9 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 4×Bulawayo3,759 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,343 haBulawayo4 October 2022 · 1 day
- 1,163 haBulawayo13 October 2022 · 1 day
- 914 haBulawayoAugust 2025 · 2 days of 1,188 ha in total
- 338 haUmguza20 September 2018 · 2 days of 1,250 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Bulawayo · 4
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/Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT www.zimstat.co.zw) Central Statistics Office, OCHA ROSEA (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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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