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Wildfires in Lobamba

Lobamba, Eswatini, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 641 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 23° · 54 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 26° · 57 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 30° · 49 % · 37 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 30° · 57 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 40 % · 42 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 24° · 46 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 23° · 45 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 24° · 45 % · 26 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

641
hectares burned
5.0 %
of its area
2
fires
127
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Lobamba

  1. 145 ha Mbabane fire, June 2021 1.1% of the municipality · 1,253 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 496 ha Mhlambanyatsi fire, July 2019 3.9% of the municipality · 2,180 ha in total · 3 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).