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Wildfires in Piggs Peak

Piggs Peak, Eswatini, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 9,035 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 3 Low 29° · 42 % · 32 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Low 30° · 51 % · 32 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 43 % · 35 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Low 34° · 38 % · 37 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 27° · 64 % · 35 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 20° · 80 % · 55 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 21° · 56 % · 44 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 29° · 53 % · 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

9,035
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
8
fires
491
km²

How many times has Piggs Peak burned?

Piggs Peak has burned 8 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2020, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Piggs Peak fire, August 2026, with 1,228 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,035 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,381 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
8
fires
4
years with fire
9,035
cumulative ha
7,381
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 Piggs Peak

  1. 1,228 ha Piggs Peak fire, August 2026 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,223 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 842 ha Piggs Peak fire, July 2021 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,018 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 44 ha Nkhaba fire, April 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 1,006 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,204 ha Piggs Peak fire, August 2020 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,199 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,776 ha Piggs Peak fire, 22 August 2016 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 1,769 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,367 ha Piggs Peak fire, 22 August 2016 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,362 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,645 ha Piggs Peak fire, July 2016 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,902 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 929 ha Piggs Peak fire, May 2016 where it started 1.9% 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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