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Wildfires in Mafutseni

Mafutseni, Eswatini, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 576 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.4% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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. Sat 24 Very low 26° · 53 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 32° · 40 % · 48 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 32° · 42 % · 43 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 42 % · 59 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 25° · 47 % · 41 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 25° · 37 % · 41 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 26° · 39 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 28° · 46 % · 33 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

576
hectares burned
2.4 %
of its area
2
fires
242
km²

How many times has Mafutseni burned?

Mafutseni has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2019. The most recent: Mafutseni fire, July 2019, with 565 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
576
cumulative ha
18 Jul 2019
most recent

Fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Eswatini →

Fires that entered Mafutseni

  1. 565 ha Mafutseni fire, July 2019 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,169 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 11 ha Ekukhanyeni fire, September 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,407 ha in total · 2 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).

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