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Wildfires in Kaoma

Kaoma, Zambia, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 60,645 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 10 Moderate 31° · 34 % · 32 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 31° · 33 % · 34 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Moderate 31° · 40 % · 33 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Moderate 31° · 38 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sat 14 High 32° · 37 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Moderate 33° · 34 % · 33 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 32° · 47 % · 30 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 31° · 46 % · 30 km/h
  9. Wed 18 Very low 29° · 52 % · 34 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 Kaoma: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

60,645
hectares burned
6.7 %
of its area
12
fires
9,049
km²

How many times has Kaoma burned?

Kaoma has burned 12 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kaoma fire, 23 September 2026, with 3,712 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 60,645 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 40,273 hectares, 4.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 3× 26
12
fires
7
years with fire
60,645
cumulative ha
40,273
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 Kaoma

  1. 2,338 ha Kaoma fire, October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 3,712 ha Kaoma fire, 23 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,304 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 3,352 ha Kaoma fire, 14 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,331 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 8,601 ha Kaoma fire, 8 September 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 8,550 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 3,047 ha Kaoma fire, 23 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,071 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 9,175 ha Kaoma fire, 2 September 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 8,701 ha in total · 20 days
  7. 3,039 ha Kaoma fire, August 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,021 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 4,599 ha Kaoma fire, July 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,574 ha in total · 23 days
  9. 3,830 ha Kaoma fire, August 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,808 ha in total · 21 days
  10. 3,198 ha Kaoma fire, 6 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,182 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 10,201 ha Kaoma fire, 4 September 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 9,902 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 3,831 ha Kaoma fire, September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,808 ha in total · 14 days
  13. 4,059 ha Kaoma fire, September 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,036 ha in total · 23 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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