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Wildfires in Gwembe

Gwembe, Zambia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2026: 7,411 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.8% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 54).

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. Sun 1 Extreme 36° · 17 % · 40 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Extreme 38° · 16 % · 44 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Extreme 38° · 15 % · 49 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Extreme 38° · 18 % · 48 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Extreme 38° · 20 % · 49 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Extreme 38° · 22 % · 48 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Extreme 38° · 23 % · 46 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Moderate 38° · 28 % · 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

7,411
hectares burned
1.8 %
of its area
2
fires
4,027
km²

How many times has Gwembe burned?

Gwembe has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Gwembe fire, 15 October 2026, with 4,284 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. 2× 26
2
fires
1
years with fire
7,411
cumulative ha
15 Oct 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 Gwembe

  1. 4,284 ha Gwembe fire, 15 October 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,266 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 3,126 ha Gwembe fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,112 ha in total · 15 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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