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Wildfires in Luano

Luano, Zambia, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 50,976 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 40).

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. Sat 24 Extreme 34° · 22 % · 54 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 31° · 30 % · 43 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very high 33° · 29 % · 40 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very high 35° · 19 % · 32 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very high 36° · 17 % · 44 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 34° · 28 % · 41 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 30° · 39 % · 42 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 31° · 28 % · 43 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

50,976
hectares burned
5.5 %
of its area
12
fires
9,244
km²

How many times has Luano burned?

Luano has burned 12 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Luano fire, October 2026, with 3,627 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 8× 26
12
fires
5
years with fire
50,976
cumulative ha
11 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 Luano

  1. 42 ha Nyimba fire, 15 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 3,627 ha Luano fire, October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,609 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 3,279 ha Luano fire, 26 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,256 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 4,139 ha Luano fire, 18 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,133 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 8,079 ha Luano fire, 10 September 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 8,023 ha in total · 19 days
  6. 5,020 ha Luano fire, 10 September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,986 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 6,492 ha Luano fire, 15 August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 7,538 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 3,890 ha Luano fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,862 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 3,074 ha Luano fire, 3 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,054 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 3,426 ha Luano fire, November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,408 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 3,074 ha Luano fire, October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,056 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 3,743 ha Luano fire, August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,729 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 3,133 ha Luano fire, August 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,115 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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