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Wildfires in Mtsambama

Mtsambama, Eswatini, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 2,333 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 31 Moderate 28° · 41 % · 42 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 45 % · 41 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 25° · 62 % · 24 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 27° · 60 % · 31 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 48 % · 32 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Low 33° · 47 % · 46 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Moderate 33° · 39 % · 46 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 29° · 56 % · 34 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

2,333
hectares burned
8.5 %
of its area
2
fires
275
km²

How many times has Mtsambama burned?

Mtsambama has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2026. The most recent: Mtsambama fire, September 2026, with 967 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
2,333
cumulative ha
2 Sept 2026
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 Mtsambama

  1. 967 ha Mtsambama fire, September 2026 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 1,258 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,365 ha Mtsambama fire, September 2017 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 1,360 ha in total · 4 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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