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Wildfires in Kaputa

Kaputa, Zambia, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 92,573 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Thu 29 Moderate 30° · 45 % · 33 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 63 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 68 % · 20 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 67 % · 25 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 27° · 67 % · 31 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 26° · 71 % · 23 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 68 % · 34 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 29° · 63 % · 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

92,573
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
20
fires
5,056
km²

How many times has Kaputa burned?

Kaputa has burned 20 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kaputa fire, 9 August 2026, with 3,674 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 92,573 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 79,467 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 14× 26
20
fires
6
years with fire
92,573
cumulative ha
79,467
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 Kaputa

  1. 3,674 ha Kaputa fire, 9 August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,652 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 4,645 ha Kaputa fire, 8 August 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 7,066 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 208 ha Chiengi fire, 6 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 10,083 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 7,100 ha Kaputa fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 9,093 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 753 ha Kaputa fire, 27 July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,030 ha in total · 20 days
  6. 18,715 ha Nsama fire, 22 July 2026 3.7% of the municipality · 18,656 ha in total · 36 days
  7. 5,610 ha Kaputa fire, 21 July 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,772 ha in total · 24 days
  8. 1 ha Nchelenge fire, 21 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 4,192 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 3,007 ha Kaputa fire, 21 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,026 ha in total · 19 days
  10. 3,490 ha Kaputa fire, 18 July 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,470 ha in total · 19 days
  11. 7,740 ha Kaputa fire, 18 July 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 7,697 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 3,262 ha Kaputa fire, 18 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,242 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 6,496 ha Kaputa fire, 3 July 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 6,453 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 3,496 ha Kaputa fire, 1 July 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,471 ha in total · 11 days
  15. 3,273 ha Kaputa fire, July 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,250 ha in total · 17 days
  16. 3,319 ha Kaputa fire, August 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,295 ha in total · 21 days
  17. 4,492 ha Kaputa fire, July 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,460 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 3,488 ha Kaputa fire, July 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,466 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 6,280 ha Kaputa fire, July 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 6,234 ha in total · 21 days
  20. 3,523 ha Kaputa fire, June 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,499 ha in total · 13 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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