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Wildfires in Motjane

Motjane, Eswatini, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 2,753 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.3% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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 30 Low 21° · 56 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Low 26° · 53 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 34 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 20° · 79 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 23° · 69 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 25° · 62 % · 34 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 26° · 56 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 28° · 52 % · 34 km/h
  9. Sat 7 Very low 27° · 56 % · 41 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

2,753
hectares burned
8.3 %
of its area
4
fires
330
km²

How many times has Motjane burned?

Motjane has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2019 and 2020. The most recent: Motjane fire, July 2020, with 1,098 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
2,753
cumulative ha
14 Jul 2020
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 Motjane

  1. 1,098 ha Motjane fire, July 2020 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 1,226 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,018 ha Motjane fire, July 2019 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,014 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 258 ha Mhlambanyatsi fire, July 2019 0.8% of the municipality · 2,180 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 379 ha Nkhaba fire, August 2016 1.2% of the municipality · 4,029 ha in total · 8 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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