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Wildfires in Chilubi

Chilubi, Zambia, has had 55 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 244,592 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 47% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 57).

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Extreme 37° · 13 % · 54 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 35° · 18 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 34° · 17 % · 47 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 34° · 21 % · 47 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 34° · 22 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 20 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 28 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 32° · 35 % · 33 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

244,592
hectares burned
47 %
of its area
55
fires
5,193
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Chilubi

  1. 14 ha Lunga fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 4,886 ha Chilubi fire, October 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,854 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 3,225 ha Chilubi fire, 28 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,206 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 3,355 ha Chilubi fire, 26 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,344 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 13,829 ha Luwingu fire, 18 August 2026 2.7% of the municipality · 399,650 ha in total · 42 days
  6. 3,581 ha Chilubi fire, 9 August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,739 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 8,079 ha Chilubi fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 8,035 ha in total · 19 days
  8. 1 ha Luwingu fire, 5 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 69,224 ha in total · 52 days
  9. 5,079 ha Chilubi fire, 1 August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,051 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 6,417 ha Chilubi fire, 31 July 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 6,379 ha in total · 16 days
  11. 6,356 ha Chilubi fire, 25 July 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 6,321 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 4,789 ha Chilubi fire, 5 October 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,763 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 3,992 ha Chilubi fire, 3 October 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,967 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 5,459 ha Chilubi fire, 3 October 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,424 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 7,324 ha Chilubi fire, 22 September 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 7,275 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 5,942 ha Chilubi fire, 10 September 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,907 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 3,181 ha Chilubi fire, 22 August 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,162 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 3,662 ha Chilubi fire, 22 August 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,642 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 7,690 ha Kasama fire, 20 August 2025 1.5% of the municipality · 91,611 ha in total · 31 days
  20. 3,073 ha Chilubi fire, 11 August 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,057 ha in total · 12 days
  21. 3,994 ha Chilubi fire, 3 August 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,971 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 14,843 ha Chilubi fire, September 2024 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 26,796 ha in total · 11 days
  23. 45 ha Luwingu fire, 14 August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 9,581 ha in total · 9 days
  24. 3,756 ha Chilubi fire, July 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,736 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 2,676 ha Chilubi fire, 19 September 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,092 ha in total · 6 days
  26. 6,974 ha Chilubi fire, 12 September 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 7,463 ha in total · 10 days
  27. 6,509 ha Chilubi fire, 5 September 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 6,470 ha in total · 9 days
  28. 3,526 ha Chilubi fire, August 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,505 ha in total · 8 days
  29. 2,206 ha Chilubi fire, July 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,373 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 3,149 ha Chilubi fire, October 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,130 ha in total · 6 days
  31. 3,213 ha Chilubi fire, 13 September 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,192 ha in total · 4 days
  32. 9,567 ha Chilubi fire, 11 September 2022 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 9,512 ha in total · 7 days
  33. 3,511 ha Chilubi fire, 10 September 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,547 ha in total · 5 days
  34. 0 ha Luwingu fire, 7 September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 12,776 ha in total · 15 days
  35. 3,207 ha Chilubi fire, August 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,189 ha in total · 8 days
  36. 3,602 ha Chilubi fire, 15 September 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,582 ha in total · 5 days
  37. 8,950 ha Chilubi fire, 14 September 2021 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 8,893 ha in total · 11 days
  38. 0 ha Kasama fire, 5 September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 24,987 ha in total · 8 days
  39. 6,418 ha Chilubi fire, September 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 6,376 ha in total · 5 days
  40. 4,707 ha Chilubi fire, August 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,681 ha in total · 9 days
  41. 552 ha Luwingu fire, 21 September 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 4,562 ha in total · 5 days
  42. 3,688 ha Chilubi fire, 16 September 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,727 ha in total · 6 days
  43. 4,955 ha Chilubi fire, 12 September 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,923 ha in total · 7 days
  44. 3,645 ha Chilubi fire, August 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,623 ha in total · 6 days
  45. 108 ha Kasama fire, 26 August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 25,335 ha in total · 16 days
  46. 3,210 ha Chilubi fire, July 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,726 ha in total · 3 days
  47. 3,205 ha Chilubi fire, September 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,187 ha in total · 3 days
  48. 4,840 ha Chilubi fire, August 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,812 ha in total · 18 days
  49. 3,374 ha Chilubi fire, October 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,353 ha in total · 6 days
  50. 3,697 ha Chilubi fire, 17 September 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,674 ha in total · 5 days
  51. 5,967 ha Chilubi fire, 12 September 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 8,095 ha in total · 8 days
  52. 2,641 ha Chilubi fire, 13 October 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,741 ha in total · 8 days
  53. 46 ha Lunga fire, October 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 4,765 ha in total · 11 days
  54. 69 ha Luwingu fire, October 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 5,345 ha in total · 5 days
  55. 3,654 ha Chilubi fire, 7 October 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,633 ha in total · 4 days
  56. 10,169 ha Chilubi fire, September 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 10,104 ha in total · 5 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).