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Wildfires in Matsoku

Matsoku, Lesotho, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2019: 19 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.0% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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 Low 21° · 26 % · 37 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 22° · 26 % · 52 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 41 % · 66 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 31 % · 58 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 21° · 22 % · 42 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 22° · 29 % · 39 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 24° · 27 % · 40 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 24° · 33 % · 41 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

19
hectares burned
0.0 %
of its area
1
fires
1,013
km²

How many times has Matsoku burned?

Matsoku has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2019. The most recent: Menkhoaneng fire, August 2019, with 19 hectares inside the municipality.

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

Fires that entered Matsoku

  1. 19 ha Menkhoaneng fire, August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,705 ha in total · 7 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/FAO and the Ministry of Local Government, OCHA ROSEA (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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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