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Wildfires in Chama

Chama, Zambia, has had 51 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 221,647 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 59).

Only fires of 3,000 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 Extreme 38° · 23 % · 40 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Extreme 39° · 17 % · 41 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Extreme 40° · 13 % · 46 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very high 40° · 21 % · 49 km/h
  5. Fri 30 High 37° · 32 % · 49 km/h
  6. Sat 31 High 34° · 36 % · 63 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very high 37° · 27 % · 47 km/h
  8. Mon 2 High 37° · 25 % · 51 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

221,647
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
51
fires
17,391
km²

How many times has Chama burned?

Chama has burned 51 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Chama fire, 16 October 2026, with 3,970 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 7× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 7× 25
  11. 16× 26
51
fires
10
years with fire
221,647
cumulative ha
16 Oct 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 3,000 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 Zambia →

Fires that entered Chama

  1. 3,970 ha Chama fire, 16 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,949 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 0 ha Mpika fire, 15 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,216 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 4,893 ha Chama fire, 15 October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,864 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 4,044 ha Chama fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,019 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 3,752 ha Chama fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,730 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 107 ha Mpika fire, 6 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 9,806 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 486 ha Mafinga fire, 6 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 21,909 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 107 ha Chama fire, 30 September 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 4,919 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 3,347 ha Chama fire, 25 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,325 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 6,248 ha Chama fire, 23 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,375 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 12,999 ha Shiwang'Andu fire, 16 September 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 38,414 ha in total · 42 days
  12. 3,101 ha Chama fire, 16 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,082 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 4,036 ha Chama fire, 15 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,016 ha in total · 12 days
  14. 3,224 ha Chama fire, 11 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,209 ha in total · 13 days
  15. 3,382 ha Chama fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,359 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 4,580 ha Chama fire, July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,563 ha in total · 28 days
  17. 3,588 ha Chama fire, October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,565 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 6,383 ha Chama fire, 22 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,346 ha in total · 12 days
  19. 3,904 ha Chama fire, 20 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,884 ha in total · 19 days
  20. 83 ha Shiwang'Andu fire, 16 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,671 ha in total · 20 days
  21. 4,837 ha Chama fire, 9 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,863 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 13,354 ha Chama fire, 1 September 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 15,263 ha in total · 30 days
  23. 5,159 ha Chama fire, August 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,127 ha in total · 10 days
  24. 3,706 ha Chama fire, September 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,686 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 981 ha Mpika fire, 9 October 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 5,465 ha in total · 19 days
  26. 8,310 ha Chama fire, 4 October 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 8,254 ha in total · 8 days
  27. 3,499 ha Chama fire, 4 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,480 ha in total · 11 days
  28. 3,664 ha Chama fire, September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,645 ha in total · 18 days
  29. 3,637 ha Chama fire, October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,678 ha in total · 7 days
  30. 3,263 ha Chama fire, 22 September 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,247 ha in total · 5 days
  31. 4,163 ha Chama fire, 15 September 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,137 ha in total · 4 days
  32. 166 ha Mpika fire, October 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 4,029 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 5,951 ha Chama fire, 17 September 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 8,736 ha in total · 25 days
  34. 9,427 ha Chama fire, 17 September 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 9,413 ha in total · 24 days
  35. 4,025 ha Chama fire, 16 September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,997 ha in total · 12 days
  36. 83 ha Mpika fire, 13 September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 4,648 ha in total · 21 days
  37. 184 ha Shiwang'Andu fire, 4 September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 30,642 ha in total · 29 days
  38. 4,503 ha Chama fire, August 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,473 ha in total · 6 days
  39. 3,324 ha Chama fire, September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,307 ha in total · 12 days
  40. 42 ha Mpika fire, 16 September 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 5,048 ha in total · 13 days
  41. 13,829 ha Chama fire, September 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 21,262 ha in total · 22 days
  42. 9,773 ha Chama fire, August 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 9,707 ha in total · 16 days
  43. 265 ha Shiwang'Andu fire, 9 October 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,224 ha in total · 18 days
  44. 703 ha Mafinga fire, 9 October 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 20,303 ha in total · 24 days
  45. 2,984 ha Mafinga fire, 4 October 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 11,134 ha in total · 19 days
  46. 4,400 ha Shiwang'Andu fire, 2 October 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 4,458 ha in total · 14 days
  47. 6,837 ha Chama fire, September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,803 ha in total · 12 days
  48. 145 ha Mafinga fire, 8 October 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,015 ha in total · 15 days
  49. 11,432 ha Chama fire, 23 September 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 11,358 ha in total · 14 days
  50. 8,486 ha Chama fire, 22 September 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 8,682 ha in total · 11 days
  51. 8,285 ha Chama fire, 18 September 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 8,230 ha in total · 15 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/GRID3, Office of the Surveyor General (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). 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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