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Wildfires in Chembe

Chembe, Zambia: 67 fires since 2016 burned 370,768 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.7 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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. Thu 29 Moderate 33° · 28 % · 31 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 42 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Moderate 30° · 37 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sun 1 High 31° · 29 % · 29 km/h
  5. Mon 2 High 32° · 27 % · 39 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Low 31° · 35 % · 39 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Low 31° · 41 % · 33 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Moderate 32° · 33 % · 34 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

370,768
hectares burned
1.7×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
67
fires
2,173
km²

How many times has Chembe burned?

Chembe has burned 67 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Chembe fire, 5 August 2026, with 5,710 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 9× 16
  2. 10× 17
  3. 9× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 6× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 6× 25
  11. 7× 26
67
fires
11
years with fire
370,768
cumulative ha
5 Aug 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 Chembe

  1. 5,710 ha Chembe fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 5,684 ha in total · 22 days
  2. 4,939 ha Chembe fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 4,912 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 8,979 ha Chembe fire, 1 August 2026 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 9,077 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 77 ha Mansa fire, 22 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,292 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 11,392 ha Milengi fire, 17 July 2026 5.2% of the municipality · 167,326 ha in total · 54 days
  6. 62,293 ha Chembe fire, 16 July 2026 where it started 29% of the municipality · 64,353 ha in total · 43 days
  7. 4,218 ha Chembe fire, 2 July 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 4,383 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 3,534 ha Chembe fire, 14 August 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,670 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 79 ha Milengi fire, 11 August 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 8,932 ha in total · 28 days
  10. 3,443 ha Chembe fire, 6 August 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,423 ha in total · 18 days
  11. 4,406 ha Chembe fire, 31 July 2025 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,402 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 1,895 ha Chembe fire, 30 July 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,557 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 9,470 ha Chembe fire, 18 July 2025 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 9,410 ha in total · 23 days
  14. 5,430 ha Chembe fire, August 2024 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 5,619 ha in total · 13 days
  15. 98 ha Milengi fire, 1 August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 13,605 ha in total · 13 days
  16. 2,848 ha Milengi fire, 25 July 2024 1.3% of the municipality · 4,928 ha in total · 15 days
  17. 4,438 ha Chembe fire, 6 July 2024 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,411 ha in total · 17 days
  18. 3,385 ha Chembe fire, 1 July 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,362 ha in total · 9 days
  19. 6,053 ha Chembe fire, 31 August 2023 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 6,209 ha in total · 9 days
  20. 5,955 ha Chembe fire, 22 August 2023 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 6,003 ha in total · 17 days
  21. 5,333 ha Chembe fire, 8 August 2023 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 5,300 ha in total · 18 days
  22. 5,327 ha Chembe fire, 30 July 2023 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 5,479 ha in total · 17 days
  23. 3,165 ha Chembe fire, 27 July 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,147 ha in total · 10 days
  24. 3,436 ha Chembe fire, 22 July 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,415 ha in total · 20 days
  25. 6,073 ha Chembe fire, September 2022 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 6,211 ha in total · 18 days
  26. 96 ha Milengi fire, 17 August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 11,940 ha in total · 21 days
  27. 4,301 ha Chembe fire, August 2022 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,274 ha in total · 14 days
  28. 5,431 ha Chembe fire, 25 August 2021 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 5,396 ha in total · 8 days
  29. 5,776 ha Milengi fire, 6 August 2021 2.7% of the municipality · 41,279 ha in total · 38 days
  30. 8,306 ha Chembe fire, 3 August 2021 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 8,510 ha in total · 12 days
  31. 9,784 ha Milengi fire, 23 August 2020 4.5% of the municipality · 25,575 ha in total · 24 days
  32. 12,643 ha Chembe fire, 4 August 2020 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 12,566 ha in total · 21 days
  33. 4,089 ha Chembe fire, 1 August 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 4,063 ha in total · 21 days
  34. 7,178 ha Chembe fire, 1 August 2020 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 7,320 ha in total · 14 days
  35. 5,635 ha Chembe fire, 29 August 2019 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 5,709 ha in total · 6 days
  36. 3,208 ha Chembe fire, 11 August 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,189 ha in total · 11 days
  37. 3,039 ha Chembe fire, 6 August 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,239 ha in total · 10 days
  38. 6,208 ha Mansa fire, 4 August 2019 2.9% of the municipality · 19,646 ha in total · 21 days
  39. 3,493 ha Chembe fire, July 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,472 ha in total · 19 days
  40. 5,887 ha Chembe fire, 27 August 2018 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 5,849 ha in total · 4 days
  41. 4,395 ha Chembe fire, 24 August 2018 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 5,748 ha in total · 13 days
  42. 4,323 ha Chembe fire, 22 August 2018 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,297 ha in total · 10 days
  43. 139 ha Milengi fire, 15 August 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 4,358 ha in total · 7 days
  44. 88 ha Milengi fire, 9 August 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 24,279 ha in total · 37 days
  45. 3,702 ha Chembe fire, 6 August 2018 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,681 ha in total · 12 days
  46. 3,046 ha Chembe fire, 3 August 2018 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,028 ha in total · 16 days
  47. 4,239 ha Chembe fire, 2 August 2018 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,212 ha in total · 17 days
  48. 20,410 ha Chembe fire, July 2018 where it started 9.4% of the municipality · 20,282 ha in total · 30 days
  49. 3,319 ha Chembe fire, September 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,309 ha in total · 1 day
  50. 859 ha Milengi fire, 24 August 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 9,191 ha in total · 17 days
  51. 3,511 ha Chembe fire, 23 August 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,492 ha in total · 13 days
  52. 6,096 ha Chembe fire, 23 August 2017 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 6,091 ha in total · 16 days
  53. 4,280 ha Chembe fire, 21 August 2017 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,256 ha in total · 13 days
  54. 3,294 ha Chembe fire, 19 August 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,273 ha in total · 10 days
  55. 3,400 ha Chembe fire, 16 August 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,526 ha in total · 18 days
  56. 8,345 ha Chembe fire, 15 August 2017 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 8,401 ha in total · 25 days
  57. 1,352 ha Mansa fire, 12 August 2017 0.6% of the municipality · 20,923 ha in total · 27 days
  58. 3,679 ha Chembe fire, 11 August 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,763 ha in total · 6 days
  59. 3,094 ha Chembe fire, 28 August 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,427 ha in total · 6 days
  60. 143 ha Milengi fire, 20 August 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 4,112 ha in total · 7 days
  61. 3,502 ha Chembe fire, 19 August 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,695 ha in total · 14 days
  62. 4,368 ha Chembe fire, 19 August 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,340 ha in total · 6 days
  63. 3,153 ha Chembe fire, 19 August 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,133 ha in total · 6 days
  64. 3,946 ha Chembe fire, 15 August 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,922 ha in total · 6 days
  65. 483 ha Mansa fire, 2 August 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 5,493 ha in total · 30 days
  66. 4,093 ha Chembe fire, 24 July 2016 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 4,071 ha in total · 13 days
  67. 12,456 ha Chembe fire, 24 July 2016 where it started 5.7% of the municipality · 12,378 ha in total · 20 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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