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Wildfires in Mashonaland Central

Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe: 375 fires with a page have entered 9 of its 10 districts since 2016, burning 524,278 hectares inside the region. The largest was Mbire in September 2025, with 8,224 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 42).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out 3 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
524,278ha
Since 2016
Of the region
18%
28,355 km²
fires
375
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
9
of 10
Largest fire
8,224ha
Mbire · September 2025
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 22 High 37° · 19 % · 27 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very high 38° · 19 % · 35 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very high 33° · 27 % · 54 km/h
  4. Sun 25 High 31° · 36 % · 48 km/h
  5. Mon 26 High 33° · 20 % · 36 km/h
  6. Tue 27 High 35° · 19 % · 27 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very high 34° · 19 % · 43 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very high 32° · 20 % · 38 km/h

Burning now in the region

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. Mbire 150,693 ha · 32 %
  2. Mount Darwin 77,009 ha · 17 %
  3. Centenary/ Muzarabani 75,984 ha · 18 %
  4. Mazowe 74,557 ha · 17 %
  5. Bindura 58,072 ha · 26 %
  6. Shamva 52,078 ha · 19 %
  7. Guruve 28,241 ha · 9.4 %
  8. Rushinga 9,079 ha · 3.9 %
  9. Bindura Urban 50 ha · 2.5 %

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
20266185,363 Hurungwe 6,037 ha
20252739,823 Mbire 8,224 ha
202499,503 Centenary/ Muzarabani 1,233 ha
20231822,737 Mbire 2,626 ha
20226191,809 Bindura 6,065 ha
20213142,814 Mbire 3,515 ha
20201725,076 Centenary/ Muzarabani 4,369 ha
20195064,399 Mount Darwin 3,359 ha
20183047,503 Mbire 5,291 ha
20172940,069 Mount Darwin 3,790 ha
20164556,665 Centenary/ Muzarabani 3,241 ha

All fires in Mashonaland Central · 378

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).