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Wildfires in Nsanje

Nsanje, Malawi, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 4,783 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 40).

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. Mon 26 High 36° · 21 % · 34 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very high 39° · 20 % · 29 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very high 41° · 19 % · 48 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very high 34° · 38 % · 46 km/h
  5. Fri 30 High 32° · 27 % · 38 km/h
  6. Sat 31 High 32° · 27 % · 42 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very high 35° · 25 % · 43 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very high 37° · 22 % · 42 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

4,783
hectares burned
2.5 %
of its area
5
fires
1,951
km²

How many times has Nsanje burned?

Nsanje has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Nsanje fire, September 2026, with 509 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,783 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,914 hectares, 2.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
5
fires
4
years with fire
4,783
cumulative ha
3,914
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Malawi →

Fires that entered Nsanje

  1. 509 ha Nsanje fire, September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,219 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,033 ha Nsanje fire, August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,027 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,089 ha Nsanje fire, August 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,083 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,056 ha Nsanje fire, August 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,093 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 1,096 ha Nsanje fire, August 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,090 ha in total · 7 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).

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