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Wildfires in Chiengi

Chiengi, Zambia, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 73,352 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 43 % · 38 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Low 28° · 53 % · 36 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 62 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 55 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 62 % · 34 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 25° · 77 % · 36 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 60 % · 24 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 52 % · 32 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

73,352
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
12
fires
3,815
km²

How many times has Chiengi burned?

Chiengi has burned 12 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Chiengi fire, 7 August 2026, with 1,841 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 73,352 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 62,052 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 7× 26
12
fires
5
years with fire
73,352
cumulative ha
62,052
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 Chiengi

  1. 1,841 ha Chiengi fire, 7 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,237 ha in total · 21 days
  2. 8,432 ha Chiengi fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 10,083 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 4,621 ha Chiengi fire, 24 July 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,591 ha in total · 25 days
  4. 29,479 ha Chiengi fire, 23 July 2026 where it started 7.7% of the municipality · 29,839 ha in total · 38 days
  5. 3,159 ha Chiengi fire, 20 July 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,137 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 4,086 ha Chiengi fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,060 ha in total · 32 days
  7. 3,327 ha Chiengi fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,304 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 3,410 ha Chiengi fire, July 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,390 ha in total · 18 days
  9. 4,270 ha Chiengi fire, August 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,245 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 3,807 ha Chiengi fire, August 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,784 ha in total · 14 days
  11. 3,046 ha Chiengi fire, July 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,028 ha in total · 17 days
  12. 3,874 ha Chiengi fire, July 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,850 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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