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Wildfires in Chinsali

Chinsali, Zambia, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 64,735 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (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. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 35 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Moderate 31° · 35 % · 19 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Moderate 32° · 32 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Low 31° · 36 % · 37 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 32° · 37 % · 20 km/h
  6. Mon 9 High 32° · 24 % · 30 km/h
  7. Tue 10 High 32° · 28 % · 27 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Moderate 32° · 34 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Chinsali: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

64,735
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
20
fires
6,282
km²

How many times has Chinsali burned?

Chinsali has burned 20 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Shiwang'Andu fire, 16 September 2026, with 18 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 64,735 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 47,610 hectares, 7.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 6× 25
  11. 5× 26
20
fires
7
years with fire
64,735
cumulative ha
47,610
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 Chinsali

  1. 18 ha Shiwang'Andu fire, 16 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 37,295 ha in total · 46 days
  2. 1,734 ha Shiwang'Andu fire, 13 September 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 8,946 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 4,370 ha Chinsali fire, September 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,344 ha in total · 27 days
  4. 16,659 ha Shiwang'Andu fire, 29 August 2026 2.6% of the municipality · 177,735 ha in total · 36 days
  5. 3,371 ha Nakonde fire, 20 July 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 3,667 ha in total · 20 days
  6. 4,553 ha Chinsali fire, 11 September 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,522 ha in total · 24 days
  7. 689 ha Chinsali fire, 10 September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,394 ha in total · 27 days
  8. 274 ha Shiwang'Andu fire, 6 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,276 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 3,841 ha Chinsali fire, 4 September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,813 ha in total · 34 days
  10. 4,302 ha Chinsali fire, 4 September 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,277 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 1,262 ha Shiwang'Andu fire, 3 September 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 90,856 ha in total · 27 days
  12. 44 ha Shiwang'Andu fire, 10 September 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 6,742 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 89 ha Shiwang'Andu fire, 5 September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 7,633 ha in total · 23 days
  14. 4,741 ha Chinsali fire, October 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,709 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 2,621 ha Shiwang'Andu fire, 13 September 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 3,798 ha in total · 16 days
  16. 5,728 ha Chinsali fire, September 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,695 ha in total · 18 days
  17. 821 ha Shiwang'Andu fire, 7 September 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 5,027 ha in total · 16 days
  18. 3,255 ha Chinsali fire, September 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,236 ha in total · 14 days
  19. 3,085 ha Chinsali fire, July 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,067 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 3,278 ha Chinsali fire, September 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,259 ha in total · 9 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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