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Wildfires in Chingola

Chingola, Zambia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2026: 5,013 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.9% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).

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. Sat 31 High 32° · 28 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sun 1 High 32° · 20 % · 34 km/h
  3. Mon 2 High 33° · 19 % · 30 km/h
  4. Tue 3 High 33° · 20 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 4 High 33° · 18 % · 31 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very high 34° · 19 % · 39 km/h
  7. Fri 6 High 32° · 28 % · 47 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 30° · 37 % · 36 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

5,013
hectares burned
2.9 %
of its area
4
fires
1,742
km²

How many times has Chingola burned?

Chingola has burned 4 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Chingola fire, July 2026, with 2,090 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
4
fires
1
years with fire
5,013
cumulative ha
21 Jul 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 Chingola

  1. 2,090 ha Chingola fire, July 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,227 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 264 ha Lufwanyama fire, 2 July 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 4,440 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 2,558 ha Chingola fire, June 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 4,886 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 101 ha Chililabombwe fire, June 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 8,087 ha in total · 32 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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