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Wildfires in Luanshya

Luanshya, Zambia, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2026: 3,342 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.6% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 55).

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° · 16 % · 44 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 35° · 19 % · 51 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 34° · 19 % · 44 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 34° · 21 % · 44 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 35° · 19 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 36° · 18 % · 45 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 35° · 26 % · 37 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 33° · 29 % · 37 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

3,342
hectares burned
3.6 %
of its area
1
fires
932
km²

How many times has Luanshya burned?

Luanshya has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Luanshya fire, July 2026, with 3,342 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
3,342
cumulative ha
1 Jul 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 Luanshya

  1. 3,342 ha Luanshya fire, July 2026 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 3,340 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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