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Wildfires in Mazabuka

Mazabuka, Zambia, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 31,011 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 46).

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. Thu 12 Very high 35° · 12 % · 28 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Very high 36° · 19 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Very high 36° · 21 % · 35 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Low 34° · 28 % · 31 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Low 33° · 31 % · 40 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Moderate 33° · 35 % · 48 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Very low 31° · 45 % · 52 km/h
  8. Thu 19 Low 30° · 49 % · 43 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 Mazabuka: hourly forecast Today, 5 µg/m³ of PM2.5 (×0.4 the WHO guideline)

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

31,011
hectares burned
7.7 %
of its area
7
fires
4,049
km²

How many times has Mazabuka burned?

Mazabuka has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2019, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Mazabuka fire, October 2025, with 3,806 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 31,011 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 23,411 hectares, 5.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
7
fires
4
years with fire
31,011
cumulative ha
23,411
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 Mazabuka

  1. 3,806 ha Mazabuka fire, October 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,785 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 4,733 ha Mazabuka fire, March 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,879 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 192 ha Mumbwa fire, March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 6,437 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 4,533 ha Monze fire, June 2016 1.1% of the municipality · 6,842 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 4,945 ha Mazabuka fire, June 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,950 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 6,695 ha Mazabuka fire, May 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 6,667 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 6,108 ha Mazabuka fire, April 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 6,081 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).

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