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Wildfires in Kasungu

Kasungu, Malawi, has had 59 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 96,732 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 49).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very high 36° · 18 % · 43 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 34° · 21 % · 49 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 32° · 31 % · 49 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 33° · 31 % · 46 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 32° · 30 % · 49 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 34° · 25 % · 41 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 27 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 30° · 35 % · 36 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

96,732
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
59
fires
8,116
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kasungu

  1. 1,400 ha Kasungu fire, 14 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,110 ha Kasungu fire, 8 October 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,104 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 12 ha Nkhotakota fire, 7 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,063 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 5,523 ha Kasungu fire, 5 October 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,494 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 1,641 ha Kasungu fire, September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,630 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,878 ha Kasungu fire, 30 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,866 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2,048 ha Kasungu fire, 2 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,035 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,510 ha Kasungu fire, 27 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,501 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,503 ha Kasungu fire, 25 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,495 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 2,101 ha Kasungu fire, 10 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,091 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 1 ha Nkhotakota fire, 9 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,403 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,196 ha Kasungu fire, 5 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,188 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 1,887 ha Kasungu fire, 5 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,877 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 1,627 ha Kasungu fire, 1 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,617 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 1,044 ha Kasungu fire, 31 August 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,037 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 1,719 ha Kasungu fire, 29 August 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,709 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 1,357 ha Kasungu fire, 4 August 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,351 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 1,338 ha Kasungu fire, 17 September 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,331 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 1,224 ha Kasungu fire, 15 September 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,217 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 1,572 ha Kasungu fire, October 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,563 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 1,218 ha Kasungu fire, 25 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,212 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 1,092 ha Kasungu fire, 17 October 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,085 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 1,556 ha Kasungu fire, 14 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,547 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 3,515 ha Kasungu fire, 11 October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,493 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 1,014 ha Kasungu fire, 5 October 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,009 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 1,018 ha Kasungu fire, 4 October 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,013 ha in total · 3 days
  27. 1,267 ha Kasungu fire, 29 October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,259 ha in total · 4 days
  28. 1,162 ha Kasungu fire, 7 October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,155 ha in total · 3 days
  29. 1,024 ha Kasungu fire, 30 August 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,018 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 1,177 ha Kasungu fire, 10 August 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,170 ha in total · 4 days
  31. 1,066 ha Kasungu fire, November 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,060 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 2,206 ha Kasungu fire, 5 October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,193 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 1,117 ha Kasungu fire, 5 October 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,111 ha in total · 2 days
  34. 8,289 ha Kasungu fire, 30 September 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 8,236 ha in total · 9 days
  35. 1,956 ha Kasungu fire, 17 September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,944 ha in total · 3 days
  36. 1,513 ha Kasungu fire, 3 September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,504 ha in total · 3 days
  37. 1,262 ha Kasungu fire, 28 October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,255 ha in total · 5 days
  38. 1,302 ha Kasungu fire, 28 October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,299 ha in total · 4 days
  39. 1,955 ha Kasungu fire, 27 October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,943 ha in total · 6 days
  40. 1,824 ha Kasungu fire, 23 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,812 ha in total · 2 days
  41. 1,313 ha Kasungu fire, 23 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,304 ha in total · 2 days
  42. 1,045 ha Kasungu fire, October 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,039 ha in total · 1 day
  43. 1,149 ha Kasungu fire, 26 September 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,141 ha in total · 3 days
  44. 4,677 ha Kasungu fire, 26 September 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,646 ha in total · 9 days
  45. 2,802 ha Kasungu fire, 24 September 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,783 ha in total · 6 days
  46. 1,605 ha Kasungu fire, 24 September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,597 ha in total · 4 days
  47. 1,078 ha Kasungu fire, 23 September 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,072 ha in total · 2 days
  48. 1,156 ha Kasungu fire, 21 September 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,148 ha in total · 3 days
  49. 1,217 ha Kasungu fire, 20 September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,209 ha in total · 8 days
  50. 1,017 ha Kasungu fire, 8 September 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,010 ha in total · 2 days
  51. 1,984 ha Kasungu fire, August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,970 ha in total · 1 day
  52. 1,031 ha Kasungu fire, 20 October 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,025 ha in total · 3 days
  53. 1,040 ha Kasungu fire, 14 October 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,033 ha in total · 2 days
  54. 1,094 ha Kasungu fire, 7 October 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,088 ha in total · 2 days
  55. 1,113 ha Kasungu fire, 7 October 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,108 ha in total · 2 days
  56. 1,054 ha Kasungu fire, 26 September 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,047 ha in total · 2 days
  57. 1,196 ha Kasungu fire, 10 September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,189 ha in total · 4 days
  58. 1,640 ha Kasungu fire, October 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,630 ha in total · 4 days
  59. 1,095 ha Kasungu fire, 15 September 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,088 ha in total · 5 days
  60. 1,603 ha Kasungu fire, 10 September 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,593 ha in total · 1 day

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).