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Wildfires in Kitwe

Kitwe, Zambia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2026: 6,449 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.9% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 51).

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. Fri 23 Very high 36° · 18 % · 44 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 36° · 18 % · 49 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 34° · 18 % · 46 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 35° · 20 % · 45 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 35° · 20 % · 38 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 18 % · 40 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 34° · 25 % · 37 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 34° · 25 % · 33 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

6,449
hectares burned
7.9 %
of its area
3
fires
813
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kitwe

  1. 3,505 ha Kitwe fire, July 2026 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 3,855 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 0 ha Luanshya fire, July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,340 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 2,944 ha Kitwe fire, June 2026 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 3,033 ha in total · 10 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).