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Wildfires in Lunga

Lunga, Zambia, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 37,053 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.7% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 57).

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. Fri 23 Extreme 37° · 15 % · 44 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 35° · 17 % · 46 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 34° · 21 % · 45 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 33° · 23 % · 43 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 34° · 21 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 34° · 24 % · 38 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 33° · 38 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 32° · 33 % · 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

37,053
hectares burned
9.7 %
of its area
11
fires
3,825
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Lunga

  1. 4,284 ha Lunga fire, October 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 3,249 ha Lunga fire, 15 October 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,281 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 3,375 ha Lunga fire, 14 October 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,801 ha in total · 23 days
  4. 4,089 ha Lunga fire, 5 October 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,061 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 4,061 ha Lunga fire, 14 October 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,257 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 3,045 ha Lunga fire, 14 October 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,025 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 4,466 ha Lunga fire, 4 October 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,443 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 3,199 ha Lunga fire, December 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,377 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 2,127 ha Lunga fire, November 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,849 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 3,421 ha Lunga fire, October 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,400 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 1,278 ha Kanchibiya fire, October 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 3,485 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 4,743 ha Lunga fire, October 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,765 ha in total · 11 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).