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Wildfires in Matabeleland North

Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe: 495 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 9 districts since 2016, burning 1,610,290 hectares inside the region. The largest was Lupane in 29 August 2022, with 66,609 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 48).

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
1,610,290ha
Since 2016
Of the region
21%
75,957 km²
fires
495
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 9
Largest fire
66,609ha
Lupane · 29 August 2022
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 Very high 40° · 14 % · 40 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very high 40° · 14 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very high 37° · 17 % · 41 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very high 35° · 25 % · 36 km/h
  5. Mon 26 High 36° · 17 % · 33 km/h
  6. Tue 27 High 37° · 17 % · 34 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very high 38° · 17 % · 41 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very high 37° · 18 % · 35 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Hwange 712,427 ha · 26 %
  2. Lupane 464,755 ha · 46 %
  3. Binga 147,204 ha · 11 %
  4. Umguza 134,193 ha · 22 %
  5. Bubi 99,499 ha · 16 %
  6. Tsholotsho 38,453 ha · 4.9 %
  7. Nkayi 9,699 ha · 2.0 %
  8. Hwange Urban 4,060 ha · 13 %

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
202669178,448 Lupane 10,914 ha
20251544,970 Hwange 9,365 ha
2024611,851 Bubi 5,325 ha
20233892,192 Lupane 13,384 ha
202270334,703 Lupane 66,609 ha
20213989,939 Hwange 15,858 ha
20202043,537 Binga 5,422 ha
201970238,880 Lupane 27,088 ha
201850166,897 Lupane 26,929 ha
201777304,073 Hwange 33,821 ha
201641104,799 Hwange 18,713 ha

All fires in Matabeleland North · 495

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).