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Wildfires in Somntongo

Somntongo, Eswatini, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 7,698 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 24% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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 24 Very low 28° · 52 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 34° · 40 % · 43 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 31° · 51 % · 37 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 33° · 40 % · 49 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 25° · 53 % · 56 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 25° · 39 % · 47 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 26° · 38 % · 45 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 29° · 37 % · 46 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

7,698
hectares burned
24 %
of its area
4
fires
316
km²

How many times has Somntongo burned?

Somntongo has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2018, 2019 and 2021. The most recent: Somntongo fire, September 2021, with 1,372 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,698 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,851 hectares, 22 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
7,698
cumulative ha
6,851
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 Somntongo

  1. 1,372 ha Somntongo fire, September 2021 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 1,366 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 3,367 ha Somntongo fire, July 2019 where it started 11% of the municipality · 3,354 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 793 ha Somntongo fire, June 2019 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,273 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 2,165 ha Somntongo fire, August 2018 where it started 6.8% of the municipality · 2,157 ha in total · 6 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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