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Wildfires in Machinga

Machinga, Malawi, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 34,480 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 46).

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 Very high 38° · 20 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 34° · 26 % · 50 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 33° · 30 % · 50 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 34° · 22 % · 42 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 36° · 25 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 37° · 18 % · 43 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 32° · 39 % · 43 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 31° · 32 % · 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

34,480
hectares burned
8.7 %
of its area
22
fires
3,953
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Machinga

  1. 1,414 ha Machinga fire, July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,406 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,217 ha Machinga fire, 20 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,209 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,714 ha Machinga fire, 9 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,703 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,100 ha Machinga fire, September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,093 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,844 ha Machinga fire, September 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,832 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,101 ha Machinga fire, June 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,094 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 1,202 ha Machinga fire, April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,194 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 1,447 ha Machinga fire, August 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,438 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,973 ha Machinga fire, May 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,961 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 5,760 ha Machinga fire, 20 September 2018 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 5,724 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 345 ha Mangochi fire, 18 September 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 1,015 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 1,142 ha Machinga fire, 6 September 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,135 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,335 ha Machinga fire, August 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,326 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 1,050 ha Machinga fire, 22 October 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,043 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 1,112 ha Machinga fire, 3 October 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,107 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 1,387 ha Machinga fire, 25 September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,804 ha in total · 11 days
  17. 3,129 ha Machinga fire, 15 September 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,110 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 1,218 ha Machinga fire, 18 August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,210 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 1,272 ha Machinga fire, 11 August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,264 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 701 ha Zomba fire, October 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 1,166 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 1,593 ha Machinga fire, August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,583 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 1,426 ha Machinga fire, June 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,416 ha in total · 4 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).