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Wildfires in Mambwe

Mambwe, Zambia, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 17,332 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 42).

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 30 Very high 36° · 28 % · 38 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very high 36° · 21 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very high 38° · 15 % · 29 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very high 38° · 18 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very high 39° · 23 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Extreme 39° · 22 % · 54 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Extreme 39° · 23 % · 46 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Extreme 39° · 22 % · 36 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

17,332
hectares burned
3.0 %
of its area
6
fires
5,779
km²

How many times has Mambwe burned?

Mambwe has burned 6 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Lavushimanda fire, 7 October 2026, with 6 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 17,332 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,697 hectares, 2.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
6
fires
6
years with fire
17,332
cumulative ha
15,697
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 Mambwe

  1. 6 ha Lavushimanda fire, 7 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 40,325 ha in total · 23 days
  2. 3,098 ha Mambwe fire, October 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,078 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 4,047 ha Mambwe fire, August 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,022 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 3,675 ha Mambwe fire, July 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,653 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 3,369 ha Mambwe fire, August 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,349 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 3,137 ha Mambwe fire, July 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,155 ha in total · 6 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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