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Wildfires in Harare
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 874 km² of Harare at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 289 km², ranking 9th 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 2012, with 413 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 204 km². The 2021–2025 average is 24% 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.
July, August and September together hold 58% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 14 August 2013, with detections in 16 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 874 km² with at least one detection, 68% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 144 | 16% |
| 2 years | 134 | 15% |
| 3 to 5 years | 274 | 31% |
| 6 to 10 years | 289 | 33% |
| 11 years or more | 33 | 3.8% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -17.75, 31.25 and holds 68% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
Show the table
| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 413 | 615 |
| 2013 | 357 | 562 |
| 2014 | 307 | 458 |
| 2015 | 290 | 461 |
| 2016 | 328 | 387 |
| 2017 | 280 | 445 |
| 2018 | 271 | 414 |
| 2019 | 290 | 444 |
| 2020 | 215 | 328 |
| 2021 | 270 | 416 |
| 2022 | 204 | 292 |
| 2023 | 281 | 416 |
| 2024 | 248 | 247 |
| 2025 | 292 | 336 |
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
- Mashonaland Central55 km
- Mashonaland East55 km
- Mashonaland West119 km
- Midlands197 km
- Manica, Mozambique211 km
- Manicaland272 km