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Wildfires in Midlands

Midlands, Zimbabwe: 195 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 14 districts since 2016, burning 280,275 hectares inside the region. The largest was Gweru in August 2024, with 5,271 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 41).

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
280,275ha
Since 2016
Of the region
5.7%
49,599 km²
fires
195
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 14
Largest fire
5,271ha
Gweru · August 2024
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very high 37° · 16 % · 45 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 34° · 20 % · 45 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 33° · 19 % · 35 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 34° · 15 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 34° · 16 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 19 % · 43 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 32° · 18 % · 46 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 31° · 16 % · 43 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. Gweru 79,846 ha · 13 %
  2. Gokwe South 68,986 ha · 6.2 %
  3. Chirumhanzu 51,845 ha · 11 %
  4. Kwekwe 37,924 ha · 4.3 %
  5. Shurugwi 20,913 ha · 6.0 %
  6. Gokwe North 15,843 ha · 2.2 %
  7. Mberengwa 3,532 ha · 0.7 %
  8. Zvishavane 1,386 ha · 0.6 %

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
20263646,728 Shurugwi 2,792 ha
20251117,974 Chirumhanzu 3,862 ha
2024513,337 Gweru 5,271 ha
20231315,002 Gweru 1,626 ha
20223949,227 Gokwe South 2,115 ha
20211114,144 Kwekwe 3,284 ha
202044,896 Gokwe South 1,718 ha
20192946,974 Gokwe South 3,792 ha
20182738,180 Gweru 3,126 ha
20171828,326 Chirumhanzu 2,883 ha
201625,488 Gweru 3,979 ha

All fires in Midlands · 195

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).