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Wildfires in Manicaland

Manicaland, Zimbabwe: 139 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 10 districts since 2016, burning 251,310 hectares inside the region. The largest was Chimanimani in 22 October 2019, with 15,746 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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
251,310ha
Since 2016
Of the region
7.0%
35,988 km²
fires
139
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 10
Largest fire
15,746ha
Chimanimani · 22 October 2019
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Low 30° · 47 % · 41 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 29° · 40 % · 37 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 34° · 20 % · 38 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 14 % · 35 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 32° · 31 % · 43 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 29° · 37 % · 49 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 30° · 32 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 30° · 27 % · 36 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Nyanga 101,213 ha · 17 %
  2. Chimanimani 94,710 ha · 28 %
  3. Mutasa 18,317 ha · 7.1 %
  4. Makoni 16,044 ha · 2.0 %
  5. Mutare 14,223 ha · 2.6 %
  6. Chipinge 5,710 ha · 1.1 %
  7. Buhera 1,092 ha · 0.2 %
  8. Mutare Urban 2 ha · 0.0 %

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
20261214,960 Chimanimani 2,077 ha
20251016,145 Nyanga 6,132 ha
20242450,202 Nyanga 7,108 ha
2023812,693 Chimanimani 2,521 ha
20221321,837 Chimanimani 3,242 ha
2021914,465 Nyanga 3,112 ha
2020814,011 Chimanimani 2,669 ha
20192146,435 Chimanimani 15,746 ha
20181221,739 Nyanga 4,836 ha
2017510,705 Nyanga 4,533 ha
20161728,119 Chimanimani 3,682 ha

All fires in Manicaland · 139

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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