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Wildfires in Lepele-Nkumpi

Lepele-Nkumpi, South Africa, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 49,299 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 48).

Only fires of 2,000 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. Thu 22 Very high 39° · 7 % · 49 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very high 32° · 20 % · 45 km/h
  3. Sat 24 High 30° · 32 % · 42 km/h
  4. Sun 25 High 33° · 24 % · 32 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very high 37° · 11 % · 44 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very high 35° · 11 % · 69 km/h
  7. Wed 28 High 30° · 36 % · 65 km/h
  8. Thu 29 High 31° · 35 % · 55 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

49,299
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
20
fires
3,499
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Lepele-Nkumpi

  1. 2,745 ha Lepele-Nkumpi fire, October 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,985 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 2,669 ha Lepele-Nkumpi fire, September 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,952 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,970 ha Mogalakwena fire, October 2024 0.8% of the municipality · 3,472 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,693 ha Lepele-Nkumpi fire, October 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,194 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 2,806 ha Lepele-Nkumpi fire, July 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,053 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 3,869 ha Lepele-Nkumpi fire, October 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,906 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 796 ha Lepele-Nkumpi fire, 27 August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,560 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 2,459 ha Lepele-Nkumpi fire, 18 August 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,592 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 3,024 ha Lepele-Nkumpi fire, September 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,014 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 1,492 ha Polokwane fire, June 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 3,140 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 1,765 ha Lepele-Nkumpi fire, June 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,049 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 2,304 ha Lepele-Nkumpi fire, July 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,393 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 2,506 ha Lepele-Nkumpi fire, August 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,497 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 2,250 ha Lepele-Nkumpi fire, July 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,419 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 2,296 ha Lepele-Nkumpi fire, October 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,286 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 140 ha Modimolle/Mookgophong fire, 16 September 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,643 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 4,394 ha Lepele-Nkumpi fire, 14 September 2018 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 14,950 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 3,788 ha Lepele-Nkumpi fire, 1 September 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,980 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 1,667 ha Lepele-Nkumpi fire, August 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,340 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 3,664 ha Lepele-Nkumpi fire, July 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,650 ha in total · 6 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OCHA ROSEA, South African Municipal Demarcation Board (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).