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Wildfires in Limulunga

Limulunga, Zambia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 6,582 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.7% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 50).

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 37° · 18 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 38° · 17 % · 49 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 36° · 17 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 36° · 23 % · 40 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 37° · 22 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 37° · 20 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 35° · 26 % · 39 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 36° · 22 % · 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

6,582
hectares burned
1.7 %
of its area
2
fires
3,950
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Limulunga

  1. 3,322 ha Limulunga fire, October 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,300 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 3,260 ha Limulunga fire, September 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,240 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).