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Wildfires in Kabompo

Kabompo, Zambia, has had 25 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 85,058 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 45).

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 24 Very high 37° · 17 % · 47 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 36° · 16 % · 40 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very high 35° · 21 % · 41 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very high 37° · 19 % · 35 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very high 36° · 18 % · 40 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 23 % · 35 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 32° · 33 % · 51 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 31° · 40 % · 53 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

85,058
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
25
fires
7,175
km²

How many times has Kabompo burned?

Kabompo has burned 25 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kabompo fire, 16 September 2026, with 3,519 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 85,058 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 62,962 hectares, 8.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 9× 26
25
fires
9
years with fire
85,058
cumulative ha
62,962
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 Kabompo

  1. 3,519 ha Kabompo fire, 16 September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,498 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 4,707 ha Kabompo fire, 15 September 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,683 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 3,788 ha Kabompo fire, 13 September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,768 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 4,743 ha Kabompo fire, 1 September 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,721 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 3,819 ha Kabompo fire, 22 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,803 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 3,150 ha Kabompo fire, 19 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,126 ha in total · 16 days
  7. 3,453 ha Kabompo fire, 13 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,830 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 8,659 ha Kabompo fire, 10 August 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 8,600 ha in total · 26 days
  9. 22 ha Zambezi fire, 22 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,096 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 546 ha Zambezi fire, 1 October 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 7,344 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 3,549 ha Kabompo fire, 30 August 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,529 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 2,683 ha Manyinga fire, 30 August 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 4,500 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 4,465 ha Kabompo fire, 28 August 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,441 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 5,382 ha Kabompo fire, 28 August 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,357 ha in total · 13 days
  15. 511 ha Manyinga fire, August 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 3,562 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 3,597 ha Kabompo fire, August 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,576 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 3,385 ha Kabompo fire, July 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,367 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 3,524 ha Kabompo fire, August 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,509 ha in total · 8 days
  19. 3,996 ha Kabompo fire, 5 September 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,969 ha in total · 10 days
  20. 3,214 ha Kabompo fire, 1 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,199 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 3,262 ha Kabompo fire, September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,244 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 3,556 ha Kabompo fire, 16 September 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,537 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 4,149 ha Kabompo fire, 14 September 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,124 ha in total · 12 days
  24. 3 ha Mufumbwe fire, 13 September 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 5,554 ha in total · 11 days
  25. 3,381 ha Kabompo fire, September 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,356 ha in total · 4 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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