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Wildfires in Masvingo

Masvingo, Zimbabwe: 99 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 9 districts since 2016, burning 176,007 hectares inside the region. The largest was Masvingo in 15 September 2018, with 6,832 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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
176,007ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.1%
56,745 km²
fires
99
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 9
Largest fire
6,832ha
Masvingo · 15 September 2018
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 Very low 25° · 67 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 31° · 40 % · 27 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 34° · 28 % · 27 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 38° · 16 % · 33 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 32° · 35 % · 41 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 28° · 40 % · 42 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 30° · 34 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 30° · 37 % · 41 km/h

Burning now in the region

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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. Mwenezi 63,494 ha · 4.8 %
  2. Chiredzi 54,983 ha · 3.1 %
  3. Gutu 25,164 ha · 3.5 %
  4. Masvingo 24,146 ha · 3.5 %
  5. Bikita 6,318 ha · 1.2 %
  6. Chivi 1,053 ha · 0.3 %
  7. Zaka 850 ha · 0.3 %

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
20261217,330 Mwenezi 2,954 ha
20251425,338 Mwenezi 5,779 ha
20241215,940 Mwenezi 2,821 ha
2023815,805 Mwenezi 3,615 ha
20221634,303 Chiredzi 6,649 ha
20211117,418 Bikita 3,218 ha
202022,381 Gutu 1,253 ha
2019610,191 Chiredzi 2,552 ha
20181124,405 Masvingo 6,832 ha
201759,328 Chiredzi 2,920 ha
201623,568 Chiredzi 1,918 ha

All fires in Masvingo · 99

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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