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Wildfires in Chililabombwe

Chililabombwe, Zambia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 14,246 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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 12 Very low 29° · 45 % · 25 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Low 28° · 49 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Moderate 29° · 43 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Very low 29° · 50 % · 23 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Very low 28° · 49 % · 26 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Very low 28° · 52 % · 30 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Very low 23° · 76 % · 36 km/h
  8. Thu 19 Very low 28° · 55 % · 35 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Chililabombwe: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

14,246
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
3
fires
1,025
km²

How many times has Chililabombwe burned?

Chililabombwe has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Chililabombwe fire, June 2026, with 8,037 hectares inside the municipality.

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3
fires
3
years with fire
14,246
cumulative ha
9 Jun 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 Chililabombwe

  1. 8,037 ha Chililabombwe fire, June 2026 where it started 7.8% of the municipality · 7,902 ha in total · 35 days
  2. 3,131 ha Chililabombwe fire, July 2019 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 3,114 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 3,078 ha Chililabombwe fire, July 2017 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 3,110 ha in total · 25 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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