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Wildfires in Luampa

Luampa, Zambia, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 29,067 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.8% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Sun 8 High 32° · 38 % · 22 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Low 32° · 40 % · 50 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Very low 31° · 38 % · 34 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Low 32° · 28 % · 30 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Moderate 30° · 33 % · 26 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Low 32° · 48 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very low 32° · 37 % · 46 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Low 32° · 38 % · 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 Luampa: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

29,067
hectares burned
2.8 %
of its area
20
fires
10,315
km²

How many times has Luampa burned?

Luampa has burned 20 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mulobezi fire, October 2026, with 707 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 9× 26
20
fires
6
years with fire
29,067
cumulative ha
19 Oct 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 Luampa

  1. 707 ha Mulobezi fire, October 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 5,597 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 3,114 ha Luampa fire, 11 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,096 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 3,832 ha Luampa fire, 8 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,811 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 10 ha Itezhi-Tezhi fire, 3 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,665 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 11 ha Itezhi-Tezhi fire, 28 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,598 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 5,144 ha Luampa fire, August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,111 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 60 ha Itezhi-Tezhi fire, 23 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 8,625 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 3,540 ha Luampa fire, 18 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,521 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 5,865 ha Luampa fire, 11 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,846 ha in total · 22 days
  10. 1,366 ha Itezhi-Tezhi fire, 23 August 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 3,163 ha in total · 22 days
  11. 274 ha Itezhi-Tezhi fire, 4 October 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 4,154 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 116 ha Itezhi-Tezhi fire, 27 September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 34,005 ha in total · 19 days
  13. 3,163 ha Luampa fire, September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,147 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 493 ha Itezhi-Tezhi fire, 29 August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 28,253 ha in total · 20 days
  15. 382 ha Itezhi-Tezhi fire, October 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 3,461 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 75 ha Kazungula fire, 2 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 4,353 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 203 ha Itezhi-Tezhi fire, 23 August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 3,132 ha in total · 11 days
  18. 84 ha Itezhi-Tezhi fire, 21 September 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 3,354 ha in total · 15 days
  19. 563 ha Luampa fire, September 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,409 ha in total · 17 days
  20. 64 ha Itezhi-Tezhi fire, 1 September 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 4,149 ha in total · 5 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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