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Wildfires in Tanzania
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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Regions
- Arusha2 fires
- Dar es Salaam2 fires
- Dodoma89 fires
- Geita10 fires
- Iringa79 fires
- Kagerano fires now
- Katavi109 fires
- Kigoma34 fires
- Kilimanjaro2 fires
- Lindi319 fires
- Manyara12 fires
- Mara1 fire
- Mbeya151 fires
- Morogoro194 fires
- Mtwara141 fires
- Mwanza1 fire
- Njombe71 fires
- North Pembano fires now
- Pwani83 fires
- Rukwa97 fires
- Ruvuma512 fires
- Shinyanga2 fires
- Simiyu4 fires
- Singida104 fires
- South Pembano fires now
- Tabora108 fires
- Tanga31 fires
- Unguja Northno fires now
- Unguja South1 fire
42 fires
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 670,250 km² of Tanzania at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 263,100 km², ranking 10th of 200 countries.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2016, with 304,830 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 224,430 km². The 2021–2025 average is 12% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
August, September and October together hold 60% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 5 October 2020, with detections in 6,842 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 670,250 km² with at least one detection, 76% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 92,500 | 14% |
| 2 years | 71,060 | 11% |
| 3 to 5 years | 187,080 | 28% |
| 6 to 10 years | 266,110 | 40% |
| 11 years or more | 53,500 | 8.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -10.25, 39.75 and holds 0.9% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 294,480 | 340,323 |
| 2013 | 282,540 | 328,672 |
| 2014 | 257,090 | 290,387 |
| 2015 | 286,490 | 336,478 |
| 2016 | 304,830 | 354,556 |
| 2017 | 237,340 | 271,232 |
| 2018 | 239,320 | 266,839 |
| 2019 | 244,540 | 278,759 |
| 2020 | 279,690 | 321,016 |
| 2021 | 287,090 | 339,048 |
| 2022 | 229,720 | 268,651 |
| 2023 | 224,430 | 254,369 |
| 2024 | 245,280 | 277,809 |
| 2025 | 270,510 | 326,433 |
Nearby countries
- Democratic Republic of the Congo898,730 km² in an average year
- Angola616,940 km² in an average year
- Zambia445,810 km² in an average year
- Mozambique404,050 km² in an average year
- Central African Republic340,550 km² in an average year
- South Sudan321,060 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby countries
- Comoros416 km
- Malawi691 km
- Kenya896 km
- Mozambique966 km
- Madagascar1,184 km
- Zimbabwe1,244 km
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
