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Wildfires in Nkhaba

Nkhaba, Eswatini, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 22,428 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 54% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Mon 9 Very low 16° · 75 % · 39 km/h
  2. Tue 10 Very low 24° · 73 % · 25 km/h
  3. Wed 11 Very low 26° · 67 % · 22 km/h
  4. Thu 12 Very low 24° · 65 % · 28 km/h
  5. Fri 13 Low 27° · 55 % · 43 km/h
  6. Sat 14 Very low 23° · 81 % · 36 km/h
  7. Sun 15 Very low 26° · 64 % · 42 km/h
  8. Mon 16 Very low 26° · 69 % · 29 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 Nkhaba: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

22,428
hectares burned
54 %
of its area
14
fires
417
km²

How many times has Nkhaba burned?

Nkhaba has burned 14 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Nkhaba fire, October 2026, with 1,556 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 22,428 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,741 hectares, 31 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
14
fires
10
years with fire
22,428
cumulative ha
12,741
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 Nkhaba

  1. 1,556 ha Nkhaba fire, October 2026 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 1,550 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,042 ha Nkhaba fire, August 2025 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,037 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 1,271 ha Nkhaba fire, 28 August 2024 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,267 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,596 ha Nkhaba fire, 15 August 2024 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 1,590 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 2,383 ha Nkhaba fire, October 2022 where it started 5.7% of the municipality · 2,454 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 965 ha Nkhaba fire, April 2021 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,006 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2,956 ha Nkhaba fire, October 2020 where it started 7.1% of the municipality · 3,037 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 132 ha Motjane fire, July 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 1,226 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 2,458 ha Nkhaba fire, 19 July 2019 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 2,447 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 1,059 ha Nkhaba fire, 11 July 2019 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,054 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 1,007 ha Nkhaba fire, August 2018 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 1,384 ha Nkhaba fire, September 2017 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 1,379 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 953 ha Nkhaba fire, July 2017 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,046 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 3,666 ha Nkhaba fire, August 2016 where it started 8.8% 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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