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Wildfires in Maphalaleni

Maphalaleni, Eswatini, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 18,878 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% 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. Tue 10 Very low 24° · 68 % · 26 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 26° · 65 % · 23 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 23° · 62 % · 27 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Low 26° · 60 % · 35 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 20° · 87 % · 34 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 24° · 67 % · 42 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 25° · 74 % · 30 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 19° · 93 % · 40 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Maphalaleni: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

18,878
hectares burned
34 %
of its area
11
fires
560
km²

How many times has Maphalaleni burned?

Maphalaleni has burned 11 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Mkhiweni fire, 24 August 2024, with 571 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 18,878 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 14,564 hectares, 26 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 5× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
11
fires
5
years with fire
18,878
cumulative ha
14,564
distinct ha

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 Maphalaleni

  1. 571 ha Mkhiweni fire, 24 August 2024 1.0% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,147 ha Maphalaleni fire, September 2023 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,142 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 2,033 ha Maphalaleni fire, August 2020 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 2,025 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 1,408 ha Maphalaleni fire, September 2019 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,402 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 1,389 ha Maphalaleni fire, 19 July 2019 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,384 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 5,207 ha Maphalaleni fire, 18 July 2019 where it started 9.3% of the municipality · 5,188 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,492 ha Maphalaleni fire, 11 September 2017 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 1,485 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 1,316 ha Maphalaleni fire, 7 September 2017 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,311 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 1,372 ha Maphalaleni fire, 22 August 2017 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,375 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 1,500 ha Maphalaleni fire, 22 August 2017 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 1,494 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 1,443 ha Maphalaleni fire, 15 August 2017 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 1,438 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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