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Wildfires in Masaiti

Masaiti, Zambia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2026: 10,187 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.8% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 32).

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. Sun 8 Moderate 29° · 45 % · 24 km/h
  2. Mon 9 High 32° · 30 % · 43 km/h
  3. Tue 10 High 31° · 37 % · 35 km/h
  4. Wed 11 High 32° · 29 % · 31 km/h
  5. Thu 12 High 31° · 36 % · 34 km/h
  6. Fri 13 High 31° · 38 % · 34 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Moderate 30° · 40 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Low 29° · 68 % · 44 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Masaiti: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

10,187
hectares burned
2.8 %
of its area
3
fires
3,702
km²

How many times has Masaiti burned?

Masaiti has burned 3 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Lufwanyama fire, 12 August 2026, with 166 hectares inside the municipality.

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  2.   17
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  11. 3× 26
3
fires
1
years with fire
10,187
cumulative ha
12 Aug 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 Masaiti

  1. 166 ha Lufwanyama fire, 12 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,497 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 4,295 ha Masaiti fire, July 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,271 ha in total · 28 days
  3. 5,726 ha Masaiti fire, June 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 9,112 ha in total · 30 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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