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Wildfires in Zomba

Zomba, Malawi, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 6,315 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.0% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 32).

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 34° · 29 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 33° · 29 % · 33 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 35° · 20 % · 30 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 35° · 23 % · 37 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very high 36° · 23 % · 45 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 40 % · 39 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 29° · 45 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 30° · 33 % · 31 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

6,315
hectares burned
2.0 %
of its area
5
fires
3,129
km²

How many times has Zomba burned?

Zomba has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2022. The most recent: Zomba fire, October 2022, with 1,055 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,315 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,791 hectares, 1.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
6,315
cumulative ha
5,791
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 Zomba

  1. 1,055 ha Zomba fire, October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,049 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 1,022 ha Zomba fire, October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,016 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1,434 ha Machinga fire, 25 September 2017 0.5% of the municipality · 2,804 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 2,333 ha Zomba fire, August 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,322 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 471 ha Zomba fire, October 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,166 ha in total · 11 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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