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Wildfires in Tsoelikana

Tsoelikana, Lesotho, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,933 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.2% 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. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 36 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Low 25° · 23 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 51 % · 42 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 17° · 53 % · 46 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 18° · 65 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 23° · 36 % · 41 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 25° · 28 % · 61 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 25° · 34 % · 67 km/h
  9. Sat 7 Very low 22° · 43 % · 48 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

3,933
hectares burned
5.2 %
of its area
4
fires
756
km²

How many times has Tsoelikana burned?

Tsoelikana has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2019 and 2024. The most recent: Tsoelikana fire, September 2024, with 1,137 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
3,933
cumulative ha
4 Sept 2024
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 Tsoelikana

  1. 1,137 ha Tsoelikana fire, September 2024 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,142 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,105 ha Tsoelikana fire, August 2024 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,103 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 1,145 ha Tsoelikana fire, July 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,259 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 547 ha Tsoelikana fire, August 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,100 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/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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