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Wildfires in Mpolonjeni

Mpolonjeni, Eswatini, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 1,773 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Thu 22 High 36° · 31 % · 44 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 27° · 50 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Low 28° · 48 % · 34 km/h
  4. Sun 25 High 33° · 37 % · 54 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Moderate 35° · 32 % · 33 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Low 28° · 59 % · 71 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Moderate 30° · 37 % · 50 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Moderate 29° · 43 % · 36 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

1,773
hectares burned
3.1 %
of its area
2
fires
572
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Mpolonjeni

  1. 1,268 ha Mpolonjeni fire, September 2021 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,262 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 504 ha Siphofaneni fire, July 2019 0.9% of the municipality · 1,514 ha in total · 1 day

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).