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Wildfires in Mpongwe

Mpongwe, Zambia, has had 27 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 85,279 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 47).

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. Sat 24 Extreme 36° · 19 % · 52 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 33° · 20 % · 45 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very high 35° · 21 % · 45 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very high 35° · 19 % · 38 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very high 36° · 16 % · 35 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 35° · 25 % · 37 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 33° · 31 % · 38 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 32° · 27 % · 38 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

85,279
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
27
fires
8,380
km²

How many times has Mpongwe burned?

Mpongwe has burned 27 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Mpongwe fire, September 2026, with 7,181 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 85,279 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 76,235 hectares, 9.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 14× 26
27
fires
9
years with fire
85,279
cumulative ha
76,235
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 Mpongwe

  1. 7,181 ha Mpongwe fire, September 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 7,137 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 117 ha Kasempa fire, 21 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 6,489 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 3,835 ha Mpongwe fire, August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,809 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 3,008 ha Lufwanyama fire, 15 August 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 5,197 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 1,177 ha Lufwanyama fire, 11 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 6,759 ha in total · 24 days
  6. 1,118 ha Lufwanyama fire, 9 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,529 ha in total · 25 days
  7. 4,028 ha Mpongwe fire, 28 July 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,004 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 2,074 ha Mpongwe fire, 27 July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,008 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 2,132 ha Mpongwe fire, 26 July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,511 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 4,055 ha Mpongwe fire, 25 July 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,031 ha in total · 15 days
  11. 1,319 ha Ngabwe fire, 25 July 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 3,152 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 7,344 ha Mpongwe fire, 22 July 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 7,301 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 3,658 ha Mpongwe fire, 18 July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,638 ha in total · 15 days
  14. 164 ha Lufwanyama fire, 18 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 4,659 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 2,348 ha Mpongwe fire, September 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,304 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 1,246 ha Mushindano fire, September 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 3,250 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 3,225 ha Mpongwe fire, September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,205 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 3,238 ha Mpongwe fire, August 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,220 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 4,592 ha Mpongwe fire, September 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,460 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 3,419 ha Mpongwe fire, 10 August 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,399 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 3,152 ha Mpongwe fire, 4 August 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,196 ha in total · 9 days
  22. 3,541 ha Mpongwe fire, July 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,521 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 5,304 ha Mpongwe fire, August 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,269 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 3,426 ha Mpongwe fire, July 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,406 ha in total · 10 days
  25. 3,421 ha Mpongwe fire, August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,402 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 3,357 ha Mpongwe fire, 29 July 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,338 ha in total · 6 days
  27. 3,801 ha Mpongwe fire, 14 July 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,780 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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