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Wildfires in Mashonaland West

Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe: 848 fires with a page have entered 9 of its 13 districts since 2016, burning 1,914,665 hectares inside the region. The largest was Hurungwe in 28 September 2022, with 47,153 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 50).

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

hectares burned
1,914,665ha
Since 2016
Of the region
33%
57,981 km²
fires
848
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
9
of 13
Largest fire
47,153ha
Hurungwe · 28 September 2022
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 1 Very high 34° · 17 % · 34 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Extreme 35° · 14 % · 39 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very high 36° · 16 % · 38 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Extreme 36° · 16 % · 39 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Extreme 36° · 21 % · 40 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Extreme 36° · 22 % · 44 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very high 36° · 24 % · 52 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Moderate 36° · 38 % · 36 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. Hurungwe 1,093,926 ha · 55 %
  2. Kariba 325,590 ha · 40 %
  3. Makonde 300,525 ha · 35 %
  4. Zvimba 101,466 ha · 17 %
  5. Chegutu 56,097 ha · 10 %
  6. Mhondoro-Ngezi 31,410 ha · 7.3 %
  7. Sanyati 10,818 ha · 2.2 %
  8. Chinhoyi 1,381 ha · 9.2 %
  9. Norton 33 ha · 0.5 %

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
2026140324,693 Hurungwe 25,963 ha
202555110,330 Kariba 9,279 ha
20242240,303 Hurungwe 4,771 ha
20235894,080 Kariba 5,469 ha
2022103289,534 Hurungwe 47,153 ha
202165181,857 Hurungwe 18,108 ha
20203997,829 Kariba 11,850 ha
201983190,228 Hurungwe 16,480 ha
201892205,559 Hurungwe 29,532 ha
201786157,065 Hurungwe 8,268 ha
2016112229,767 Hurungwe 22,638 ha

All fires in Mashonaland West · 855

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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