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Wildfires in Ntfonjeni

Ntfonjeni, Eswatini, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 839 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.8% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 27 Very low 29° · 48 % · 71 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 23° · 48 % · 42 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 23° · 50 % · 34 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Low 24° · 53 % · 30 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Low 26° · 46 % · 38 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Low 30° · 36 % · 37 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Low 31° · 44 % · 39 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Moderate 31° · 44 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

839
hectares burned
2.8 %
of its area
2
fires
305
km²

How many times has Ntfonjeni burned?

Ntfonjeni has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2019. The most recent: Timpisini fire, July 2019, with 372 hectares inside the municipality.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
839
cumulative ha
19 Jul 2019
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 Ntfonjeni

  1. 372 ha Timpisini fire, July 2019 1.2% of the municipality · 1,502 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 466 ha Piggs Peak fire, May 2016 1.5% of the municipality · 1,390 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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