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Wildfires in Lilongwe

Lilongwe, Malawi, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 11,443 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.8% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 35).

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. Thu 22 High 35° · 17 % · 38 km/h
  2. Fri 23 High 34° · 19 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very high 34° · 21 % · 47 km/h
  4. Sun 25 High 32° · 30 % · 45 km/h
  5. Mon 26 High 32° · 24 % · 42 km/h
  6. Tue 27 High 33° · 28 % · 38 km/h
  7. Wed 28 High 33° · 28 % · 37 km/h
  8. Thu 29 High 32° · 32 % · 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

11,443
hectares burned
1.8 %
of its area
11
fires
6,261
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Lilongwe

  1. 340 ha Salima fire, September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,647 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,672 ha Lilongwe fire, July 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,659 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 76 ha Salima fire, October 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,528 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 778 ha Lilongwe fire, October 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,293 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 1,545 ha Lilongwe fire, August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,816 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,427 ha Lilongwe fire, September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,443 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,572 ha Dedza fire, September 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 1,731 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 1,036 ha Lilongwe fire, October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,049 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 1,005 ha Lilongwe fire, 27 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 930 ha Lilongwe fire, 2 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,170 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 1,061 ha Lilongwe fire, July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,156 ha in total · 6 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).