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Wildfires in Mkushi

Mkushi, Zambia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,192 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.8% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 26).

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 29 High 31° · 37 % · 39 km/h
  2. Fri 30 High 29° · 36 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sat 31 High 31° · 26 % · 34 km/h
  4. Sun 1 High 32° · 19 % · 33 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very high 33° · 19 % · 34 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very high 32° · 23 % · 28 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very high 33° · 22 % · 41 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very high 33° · 22 % · 39 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

7,192
hectares burned
0.8 %
of its area
3
fires
8,509
km²

How many times has Mkushi burned?

Mkushi has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2020 and 2026. The most recent: Luano fire, 15 August 2026, with 1,088 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
7,192
cumulative ha
15 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 Mkushi

  1. 1,088 ha Luano fire, 15 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 7,538 ha in total · 20 days
  2. 3,085 ha Mkushi fire, August 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,063 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 3,019 ha Mkushi fire, August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,000 ha in total · 3 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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