Wildfires in Zimbabwe
Situation over the last 30 days
3029 fires detected in Zimbabwe over the last 30 days, totalling 1,087,383 hectares of cumulative footprint. The latest satellite detection (NASA FIRMS) dates from October 22 at 04:06 AM.
The savannas in Zimbabwe burn every dry season, over huge areas but with fast, low-intensity grass fires, largely lit for farming and grazing. Detections are numerous; destructive forest fires are rare.
- Mashonaland occidental (ZW)from September 22 at 01:13 PM to October 22 at 01:37 AM54,871 ha
- Mashonaland occidental (ZW)from September 22 at 01:32 PM to October 22 at 01:37 AM38,309 ha
- Mashonaland occidental (ZW)from September 22 at 01:13 PM to September 30 at 01:29 AM28,978 ha
- Mashonaland occidental (ZW)from October 4 at 01:06 PM to October 22 at 01:37 AM16,022 ha
- Mashonaland occidental (ZW)from October 3 at 02:10 PM to October 22 at 01:37 AM15,758 ha
- Mashonaland central (ZW)from October 6 at 01:15 PM to October 22 at 01:37 AM14,541 ha
- Mashonaland occidental (ZW)from October 5 at 12:59 AM to October 22 at 01:37 AM10,060 ha
- Mashonaland central (ZW)from October 6 at 01:13 PM to October 22 at 01:18 AM9,845 ha
- Mashonaland central (ZW)from October 7 at 01:32 PM to October 21 at 03:40 PM8,305 ha
- Mashonaland occidental (ZW)from October 6 at 01:15 PM to October 21 at 03:40 PM8,223 ha
- Mashonaland oriental (ZW)from October 3 at 01:25 PM to October 21 at 02:27 PM8,014 ha
- Matabeleland septentrional (ZW)from October 13 at 01:38 PM to October 22 at 04:06 AM7,961 ha
- Mashonaland occidental (ZW)from October 3 at 02:10 PM to October 22 at 01:37 AM6,998 ha
- Mashonaland occidental (ZW)from October 3 at 02:10 PM to October 22 at 01:37 AM6,608 ha
- Matabeleland septentrional (ZW)from September 26 at 01:00 PM to September 29 at 02:09 AM5,779 ha
- Mashonaland central (ZW)from September 22 at 01:32 PM to September 29 at 02:19 PM5,651 ha
- Mashonaland central (ZW)from September 22 at 09:02 PM to October 1 at 01:31 AM5,650 ha
- Manicaland (ZW)from September 22 at 12:34 PM to September 29 at 01:45 PM5,609 ha
- Mashonaland occidental (ZW)from October 4 at 04:22 PM to October 22 at 01:37 AM5,605 ha
- Mashonaland central (ZW)from September 22 at 12:36 PM to September 29 at 08:38 PM5,094 ha
- Mashonaland central (ZW)from October 6 at 01:15 PM to October 21 at 03:40 PM4,866 ha
- Mashonaland occidental (ZW)from October 5 at 12:47 PM to October 22 at 01:18 AM4,834 ha
- Matabeleland méridional (ZW)from September 22 at 02:51 PM to September 28 at 03:48 PM4,705 ha
- Mashonaland oriental (ZW)from September 22 at 01:13 PM to September 29 at 02:19 PM4,358 ha
- Mashonaland oriental (ZW)from October 6 at 01:49 PM to October 21 at 03:40 PM4,343 ha
- du Nord-Est (BW)from October 18 at 12:54 AM to October 22 at 01:37 AM4,333 ha
- Matabeleland septentrional (ZW)from September 27 at 08:50 AM to September 29 at 08:29 AM4,239 ha
- Mashonaland occidental (ZW)from October 17 at 08:44 AM to October 21 at 01:37 AM4,222 ha
- Matabeleland septentrional (ZW)from September 24 at 01:07 AM to September 26 at 01:26 AM4,172 ha
- Mashonaland central (ZW)from October 13 at 01:38 PM to October 22 at 01:37 AM3,886 ha
- Matabeleland méridional (ZW)from October 19 at 11:52 AM to October 21 at 02:27 PM3,851 ha
- Mashonaland occidental (ZW)from September 24 at 12:53 PM to September 29 at 02:19 PM3,634 ha
- Matabeleland septentrional (ZW)from October 18 at 01:23 PM to October 21 at 02:27 PM3,520 ha
- Méridionale (ZM)from September 25 at 01:19 PM to September 29 at 02:19 PM3,498 ha
- Matabeleland septentrional (ZW)from October 16 at 01:23 PM to October 21 at 02:27 PM3,485 ha
- Mashonaland central (ZW)from October 6 at 01:13 PM to October 21 at 02:08 PM3,469 ha
- Matabeleland septentrional (ZW)from September 26 at 08:12 AM to September 28 at 02:07 AM3,461 ha
- Mashonaland occidental (ZW)from September 28 at 01:31 AM to September 29 at 04:27 PM3,448 ha
- Mashonaland occidental (ZW)from October 5 at 02:08 PM to October 22 at 01:37 AM3,256 ha
- Matabeleland septentrional (ZW)from September 25 at 12:48 AM to September 29 at 02:09 AM3,123 ha
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These figures come from satellite thermal detection and are not an official tally: only the emergency services of the country concerned are authoritative. The detected footprint overstates the area actually burnt, a pixel counting whole (375 m for VIIRS, 1 km for MODIS) when only an edge burns. A freshly detected fire may not yet carry a place name and will then not appear in this list, though it is already on the map.
Learn more: what a forest fire is and how satellites detect it
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