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Wildfires in Mulobezi

Mulobezi, Zambia, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 11,850 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.0% 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. Mon 2 Very high 37° · 11 % · 37 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very high 36° · 16 % · 40 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very high 37° · 14 % · 39 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very high 37° · 18 % · 40 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very high 37° · 16 % · 35 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very high 36° · 22 % · 41 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very high 35° · 28 % · 50 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 31° · 65 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

11,850
hectares burned
1.0 %
of its area
8
fires
12,253
km²

How many times has Mulobezi burned?

Mulobezi has burned 8 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Mulobezi fire, October 2026, with 1,138 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 11,850 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 11,074 hectares, 0.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
8
fires
5
years with fire
11,850
cumulative ha
11,074
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 Mulobezi

  1. 1,138 ha Mulobezi fire, October 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,597 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 3,211 ha Mulobezi fire, August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,201 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 73 ha Mwandi fire, August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,292 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 2,947 ha Sesheke fire, September 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 10,481 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 99 ha Kazungula fire, 2 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 4,353 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 1,164 ha Luampa fire, September 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 3,409 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 3,142 ha Mulobezi fire, September 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,124 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 76 ha Kazungula fire, 19 September 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,273 ha in total · 9 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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