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Wildfires in Kabwe

Kabwe, Zambia, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2017: 4,411 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 47).

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 Extreme 35° · 20 % · 59 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 33° · 27 % · 47 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very high 35° · 22 % · 47 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 18 % · 39 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very high 37° · 16 % · 48 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Extreme 35° · 22 % · 44 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very high 32° · 34 % · 46 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very high 33° · 24 % · 43 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

4,411
hectares burned
2.8 %
of its area
1
fires
1,582
km²

How many times has Kabwe burned?

Kabwe has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2017. The most recent: Kabwe fire, September 2017, with 4,411 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
1
fires
1
years with fire
4,411
cumulative ha
8 Sept 2017
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 Kabwe

  1. 4,411 ha Kabwe fire, September 2017 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 4,388 ha in total · 8 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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