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Wildfires in Mafinga

Mafinga, Zambia, has had 28 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 210,447 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 50% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 38).

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. Mon 26 Very high 29° · 32 % · 51 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very high 31° · 26 % · 47 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very high 33° · 19 % · 38 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very high 32° · 20 % · 37 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Low 29° · 42 % · 37 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 62 % · 36 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 57 % · 40 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 56 % · 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

210,447
hectares burned
50 %
of its area
28
fires
4,172
km²

How many times has Mafinga burned?

Mafinga has burned 28 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mafinga fire, 14 October 2026, with 2,609 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 210,447 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 107,506 hectares, 26 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 6× 26
28
fires
9
years with fire
210,447
cumulative ha
107,506
distinct ha

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 Mafinga

  1. 2,609 ha Mafinga fire, 14 October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,788 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 7,348 ha Mafinga fire, 12 October 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 7,306 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 21,559 ha Mafinga fire, 6 October 2026 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 21,909 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 4,847 ha Chama fire, 30 September 2026 1.2% of the municipality · 4,919 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 5,615 ha Mafinga fire, 25 September 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 5,577 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 6,027 ha Mafinga fire, 17 September 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 5,987 ha in total · 29 days
  7. 13,887 ha Mafinga fire, 5 October 2025 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 13,807 ha in total · 26 days
  8. 3,860 ha Mafinga fire, 2 October 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,833 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 15,119 ha Mafinga fire, September 2025 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 15,016 ha in total · 38 days
  10. 3,642 ha Mafinga fire, 9 October 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,621 ha in total · 15 days
  11. 3,144 ha Mafinga fire, 7 October 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,124 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 3,417 ha Mafinga fire, 2 October 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,396 ha in total · 14 days
  13. 4,033 ha Mafinga fire, 23 September 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,006 ha in total · 24 days
  14. 4,574 ha Mafinga fire, 23 September 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,543 ha in total · 19 days
  15. 5,579 ha Mafinga fire, October 2022 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 5,541 ha in total · 17 days
  16. 4,782 ha Mafinga fire, October 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,756 ha in total · 13 days
  17. 13,578 ha Mafinga fire, October 2019 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 13,496 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 7,247 ha Mafinga fire, September 2018 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 7,197 ha in total · 24 days
  19. 4,336 ha Mafinga fire, 14 October 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,308 ha in total · 14 days
  20. 4,796 ha Mafinga fire, 12 October 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,941 ha in total · 13 days
  21. 7,393 ha Mafinga fire, 12 October 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 7,699 ha in total · 18 days
  22. 19,724 ha Mafinga fire, 9 October 2017 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 20,303 ha in total · 24 days
  23. 8,184 ha Mafinga fire, 4 October 2017 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 11,134 ha in total · 19 days
  24. 3,186 ha Mafinga fire, 17 October 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,167 ha in total · 12 days
  25. 21,382 ha Mafinga fire, 9 October 2016 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 21,255 ha in total · 22 days
  26. 2,891 ha Mafinga fire, 8 October 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,015 ha in total · 15 days
  27. 4,426 ha Mafinga fire, 6 October 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,395 ha in total · 9 days
  28. 3,263 ha Mafinga fire, September 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,241 ha in total · 9 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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