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Wildfires in Chikwawa

Chikwawa, Malawi, has had 49 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 114,977 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 23% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 48).

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 Extreme 43° · 15 % · 46 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 38° · 28 % · 53 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 36° · 32 % · 52 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 38° · 19 % · 46 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 40° · 20 % · 42 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 42° · 15 % · 47 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 35° · 35 % · 53 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 34° · 25 % · 58 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

114,977
hectares burned
23 %
of its area
49
fires
4,920
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Chikwawa

  1. 1,114 ha Chikwawa fire, 13 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,214 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,369 ha Chikwawa fire, 12 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,364 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 794 ha Chikwawa fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,286 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,104 ha Chikwawa fire, 30 July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,100 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,285 ha Chikwawa fire, 30 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,277 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,827 ha Chikwawa fire, 29 July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,820 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 1,365 ha Chikwawa fire, 30 June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,357 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,247 ha Chikwawa fire, 9 June 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,239 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,287 ha Chikwawa fire, 23 October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,282 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 1,862 ha Chikwawa fire, 15 October 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,853 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 1,008 ha Chikwawa fire, 26 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,004 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,224 ha Chikwawa fire, 19 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,216 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,295 ha Chikwawa fire, 11 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,290 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 518 ha Neno fire, July 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 1,541 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 1,061 ha Chikwawa fire, October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,057 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 3,851 ha Chikwawa fire, 28 September 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,835 ha in total · 11 days
  17. 2,341 ha Chikwawa fire, 19 September 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,332 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 1,057 ha Chikwawa fire, 16 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,334 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 1,036 ha Chikwawa fire, October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,032 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 1,041 ha Chikwawa fire, August 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,035 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 4,457 ha Chikwawa fire, November 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,437 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 1,163 ha Chikwawa fire, 26 September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,158 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 3,210 ha Chikwawa fire, 3 September 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,196 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 2,555 ha Chikwawa fire, 1 September 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,544 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 10,400 ha Chikwawa fire, August 2020 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 10,352 ha in total · 11 days
  26. 1,032 ha Chikwawa fire, July 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,027 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 1,896 ha Chikwawa fire, October 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,570 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 3,116 ha Chikwawa fire, September 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,104 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 1,919 ha Chikwawa fire, August 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,911 ha in total · 8 days
  30. 1,901 ha Chikwawa fire, 29 July 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,892 ha in total · 1 day
  31. 1,188 ha Chikwawa fire, 18 July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,181 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 9,041 ha Chikwawa fire, September 2018 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 9,003 ha in total · 14 days
  33. 1,128 ha Chikwawa fire, July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,123 ha in total · 1 day
  34. 2,111 ha Chikwawa fire, October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,101 ha in total · 7 days
  35. 3,185 ha Chikwawa fire, 26 September 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,170 ha in total · 2 days
  36. 1,378 ha Chikwawa fire, 7 September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,370 ha in total · 2 days
  37. 1,671 ha Chikwawa fire, 14 August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,664 ha in total · 5 days
  38. 5,504 ha Chikwawa fire, 14 August 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,481 ha in total · 5 days
  39. 1,239 ha Chikwawa fire, 10 August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,234 ha in total · 7 days
  40. 2,226 ha Chikwawa fire, 5 October 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,215 ha in total · 4 days
  41. 13,283 ha Chikwawa fire, 4 October 2016 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 13,226 ha in total · 10 days
  42. 1,966 ha Chikwawa fire, 30 September 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,957 ha in total · 4 days
  43. 1,144 ha Chikwawa fire, 30 September 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,139 ha in total · 2 days
  44. 1,257 ha Chikwawa fire, 22 September 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,252 ha in total · 3 days
  45. 1,843 ha Chikwawa fire, 17 September 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,836 ha in total · 3 days
  46. 1,142 ha Chikwawa fire, 16 September 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,137 ha in total · 2 days
  47. 2,101 ha Chikwawa fire, 8 September 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,092 ha in total · 3 days
  48. 2,939 ha Chikwawa fire, 6 September 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,946 ha in total · 5 days
  49. 1,297 ha Chikwawa fire, August 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,292 ha in total · 3 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).