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Wildfires in Chibombo

Chibombo, Zambia, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 34,187 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.1% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 35).

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 Very high 34° · 25 % · 40 km/h
  2. Fri 30 High 30° · 38 % · 37 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very high 33° · 22 % · 32 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very high 34° · 17 % · 26 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very high 35° · 16 % · 36 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Extreme 36° · 16 % · 32 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very high 35° · 19 % · 39 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very high 36° · 18 % · 42 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

34,187
hectares burned
4.1 %
of its area
7
fires
8,263
km²

How many times has Chibombo burned?

Chibombo has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Chibombo fire, October 2025, with 12,876 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 34,187 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 22,352 hectares, 2.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
7
fires
5
years with fire
34,187
cumulative ha
22,352
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 Chibombo

  1. 12,876 ha Chibombo fire, October 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 14,407 ha in total · 31 days
  2. 3,288 ha Chibombo fire, 25 August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,273 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 5,611 ha Chibombo fire, 10 August 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,810 ha in total · 31 days
  4. 3,519 ha Chibombo fire, October 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,622 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 4,692 ha Chibombo fire, October 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,083 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 4,006 ha Chibombo fire, August 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,682 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 196 ha Mumbwa fire, 23 July 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 4,143 ha in total · 23 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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