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Wildfires in Chasefu

Chasefu, Zambia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 4,720 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.6% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 53).

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. Tue 27 Very high 34° · 23 % · 40 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Extreme 36° · 14 % · 43 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 35° · 27 % · 34 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Moderate 30° · 43 % · 43 km/h
  5. Sat 31 High 31° · 35 % · 33 km/h
  6. Sun 1 High 32° · 31 % · 34 km/h
  7. Mon 2 High 33° · 31 % · 34 km/h
  8. Tue 3 High 34° · 28 % · 52 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

4,720
hectares burned
1.6 %
of its area
3
fires
2,947
km²

How many times has Chasefu burned?

Chasefu has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Lumezi fire, July 2026, with 2,702 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,720 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,215 hectares, 1.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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3
fires
3
years with fire
4,720
cumulative ha
4,215
distinct ha

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 Chasefu

  1. 2,702 ha Lumezi fire, July 2026 0.9% of the municipality · 3,031 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 69 ha Chama fire, 9 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 4,863 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,949 ha Lumezi fire, July 2016 0.7% of the municipality · 3,563 ha in total · 17 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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