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Wildfires in Dedza

Dedza, Malawi, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 3,497 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.9% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 27).

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 31° · 25 % · 37 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 28° · 31 % · 46 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 27° · 35 % · 48 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 28° · 28 % · 47 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 28° · 34 % · 43 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 29° · 30 % · 44 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 28° · 39 % · 44 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 28° · 22 % · 34 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

3,497
hectares burned
0.9 %
of its area
6
fires
3,782
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Dedza

  1. 1,633 ha Dedza fire, June 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,622 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 90 ha Salima fire, October 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,528 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 131 ha Lilongwe fire, August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,816 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 147 ha Dedza fire, September 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,731 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 249 ha Lilongwe fire, 2 August 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 1,170 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,247 ha Dedza fire, June 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,250 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).