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Wildfires in Ntchisi

Ntchisi, Malawi, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 2,414 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.4% 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. Fri 23 High 34° · 26 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 32° · 29 % · 45 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 29° · 41 % · 47 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 31° · 34 % · 41 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 31° · 37 % · 45 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 32° · 30 % · 38 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 31° · 34 % · 42 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 29° · 43 % · 49 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

2,414
hectares burned
1.4 %
of its area
4
fires
1,731
km²

How many times has Ntchisi burned?

Ntchisi has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2020, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Ntchisi fire, October 2026, with 1,338 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,414 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,128 hectares, 1.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
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  5. 1× 20
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  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
4
years with fire
2,414
cumulative ha
2,128
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 Ntchisi

  1. 1,338 ha Ntchisi fire, October 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,331 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 1,035 ha Ntchisi fire, October 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,184 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 37 ha Nkhotakota fire, 20 September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 6,443 ha in total · 22 days
  4. 4 ha Nkhotakota fire, September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,213 ha in total · 3 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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