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Wildfires in Ntcheu

Ntcheu, Malawi, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 3,351 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.0% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 28).

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. Sat 24 High 32° · 35 % · 41 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 32° · 29 % · 38 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 33° · 26 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 33° · 29 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 33° · 28 % · 47 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 31° · 41 % · 43 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 28° · 49 % · 45 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 29° · 33 % · 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

3,351
hectares burned
1.0 %
of its area
4
fires
3,274
km²

How many times has Ntcheu burned?

Ntcheu has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Ntcheu fire, September 2026, with 1,081 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
4
years with fire
3,351
cumulative ha
9 Sept 2026
most recent

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 Ntcheu

  1. 1,081 ha Ntcheu fire, September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,073 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,104 ha Ntcheu fire, July 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,100 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1,155 ha Ntcheu fire, May 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,150 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 11 ha Dedza fire, June 2018 0.0% 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).

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