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Wildfires in Bulawayo
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 UTC
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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 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 436 km² of Bulawayo at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 108 km², ranking 10th of 10 regions of Zimbabwe.
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 2014, with 178 km² detected; the quietest was 2020, with 23 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of 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.
July, August and September together hold 63% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 6 September 2022, with detections in 10 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 436 km² with at least one detection, 60% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 90 | 21% |
| 2 years | 85 | 19% |
| 3 to 5 years | 184 | 42% |
| 6 to 10 years | 78 | 18% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -20.25, 28.75 and holds 77% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 107 | 96 |
| 2013 | 48 | 44 |
| 2014 | 178 | 188 |
| 2015 | 178 | 197 |
| 2016 | 36 | 36 |
| 2017 | 147 | 162 |
| 2018 | 172 | 198 |
| 2019 | 73 | 69 |
| 2020 | 23 | 20 |
| 2021 | 157 | 197 |
| 2022 | 119 | 129 |
| 2023 | 141 | 182 |
| 2024 | 36 | 46 |
| 2025 | 100 | 125 |
Other regions of Zimbabwe
- Mashonaland West20,090 km² in an average year
- Mashonaland Central10,300 km² in an average year
- Mashonaland East8,040 km² in an average year
- Matabeleland North5,610 km² in an average year
- Midlands5,340 km² in an average year
- Manicaland4,900 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 regions
- Matabeleland South52 km
- North-East, Botswana152 km
- Midlands192 km
- Masvingo260 km
- Central, Botswana318 km
- Mashonaland East343 km