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Wildfires in Kalabo

Kalabo, Zambia, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2024: 34,146 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 46).

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 Very high 35° · 24 % · 38 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very high 36° · 20 % · 29 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very high 37° · 18 % · 33 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Extreme 37° · 21 % · 55 km/h
  5. Sat 7 High 34° · 35 % · 51 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Moderate 33° · 37 % · 41 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Low 32° · 44 % · 30 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 30° · 48 % · 40 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

34,146
hectares burned
3.7 %
of its area
5
fires
9,131
km²

How many times has Kalabo burned?

Kalabo has burned 5 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Kalabo fire, August 2026, with 4,645 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
5
fires
2
years with fire
34,146
cumulative ha
11 Aug 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 Kalabo

  1. 238 ha Mongu fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 4,645 ha Kalabo fire, August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,626 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 9,047 ha Kalabo fire, 23 July 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 9,016 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 7,976 ha Kalabo fire, 19 July 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 7,947 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 9,229 ha Kalabo fire, 18 July 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 9,190 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 3,249 ha Kalabo fire, August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,237 ha in total · 2 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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