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Wildfires in Mwandi

Mwandi, Zambia, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 10,831 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.9% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

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. Wed 28 Very high 37° · 16 % · 31 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 28 % · 39 km/h
  3. Fri 30 High 34° · 23 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sat 31 High 34° · 22 % · 30 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very high 36° · 16 % · 28 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very high 37° · 12 % · 37 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Extreme 38° · 11 % · 36 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Extreme 38° · 14 % · 37 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

10,831
hectares burned
1.9 %
of its area
6
fires
5,843
km²

How many times has Mwandi burned?

Mwandi has burned 6 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2018 and 2026. The most recent: Mwandi fire, September 2026, with 3,591 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
6
fires
2
years with fire
10,831
cumulative ha
17 Sept 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 Mwandi

  1. 3,591 ha Mwandi fire, September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,565 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 312 ha Kazungula fire, September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 6,726 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 98 ha Kazungula fire, 21 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,776 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 3,237 ha Mwandi fire, August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,292 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 291 ha Mwandi fire, October 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,114 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 3,303 ha Mwandi fire, September 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,323 ha in total · 10 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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