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Wildfires in Blantyre

Blantyre, Malawi, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 921 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.5% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 34).

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 23 High 36° · 21 % · 54 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 31° · 32 % · 53 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 31° · 30 % · 47 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 33° · 17 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 33° · 27 % · 43 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 21 % · 44 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 27° · 61 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 27° · 39 % · 44 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

921
hectares burned
0.5 %
of its area
4
fires
2,038
km²

How many times has Blantyre burned?

Blantyre has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2026. The most recent: Chikwawa fire, August 2026, with 498 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
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  8.   23
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  11. 3× 26
4
fires
2
years with fire
921
cumulative ha
22 Aug 2026
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 Malawi →

Fires that entered Blantyre

  1. 498 ha Chikwawa fire, August 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 1,286 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 143 ha Neno fire, August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,122 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 259 ha Neno fire, July 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,010 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 20 ha Chikwawa fire, 6 September 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,946 ha in total · 5 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/National Statistics Office of Malawi, 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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