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Wildfires in Mwense

Mwense, Zambia: 55 fires since 2016 burned 396,374 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.6 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

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. Tue 27 Extreme 36° · 22 % · 35 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Moderate 32° · 38 % · 48 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 34° · 33 % · 36 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 48 % · 41 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 50 % · 28 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Moderate 32° · 32 % · 37 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 58 % · 35 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 66 % · 36 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

396,374
hectares burned
1.6×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
55
fires
2,423
km²

How many times has Mwense burned?

Mwense has burned 55 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mwense fire, July 2026, with 59,641 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 6× 16
  2. 8× 17
  3. 6× 18
  4. 7× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 8× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 7× 25
  11. 2× 26
55
fires
11
years with fire
396,374
cumulative ha
29 Jul 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 Mwense

  1. 59,641 ha Mwense fire, July 2026 where it started 25% of the municipality · 74,810 ha in total · 35 days
  2. 24,652 ha Chipili fire, July 2026 10% of the municipality · 614,688 ha in total · 65 days
  3. 252 ha Chipili fire, 5 September 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 3,961 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 2,296 ha Chipili fire, 22 August 2025 1.0% of the municipality · 24,817 ha in total · 37 days
  5. 1,953 ha Mwense fire, 21 August 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 9,320 ha in total · 26 days
  6. 3,947 ha Mwense fire, 19 August 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,926 ha in total · 20 days
  7. 2,747 ha Mansa fire, 16 August 2025 1.1% of the municipality · 8,792 ha in total · 21 days
  8. 1,644 ha Mansa fire, 8 August 2025 0.7% of the municipality · 296,161 ha in total · 51 days
  9. 19,851 ha Mansa fire, 5 August 2025 8.2% of the municipality · 22,744 ha in total · 24 days
  10. 5,214 ha Mwense fire, 23 July 2024 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 5,307 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 14,258 ha Mwense fire, 22 July 2024 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 15,007 ha in total · 22 days
  12. 3,243 ha Mwense fire, 20 July 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,220 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 21,101 ha Mwense fire, August 2023 where it started 8.7% of the municipality · 22,777 ha in total · 25 days
  14. 80 ha Mansa fire, 2 September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,019 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 2,979 ha Mwense fire, September 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,330 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 17,851 ha Mwense fire, 26 August 2022 where it started 7.4% of the municipality · 24,417 ha in total · 23 days
  17. 4,880 ha Mwense fire, 17 August 2022 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,844 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 341 ha Chipili fire, 3 September 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 9,774 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 4,438 ha Mwense fire, 28 August 2021 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,627 ha in total · 24 days
  20. 3,611 ha Mwense fire, 26 August 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,592 ha in total · 14 days
  21. 3,402 ha Mwense fire, 19 August 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,382 ha in total · 22 days
  22. 18,506 ha Mwense fire, 19 August 2021 where it started 7.6% of the municipality · 25,982 ha in total · 29 days
  23. 3,667 ha Mwense fire, 18 August 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,640 ha in total · 14 days
  24. 250 ha Mansa fire, 17 August 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 259,734 ha in total · 36 days
  25. 176 ha Chipili fire, 13 August 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 4,057 ha in total · 15 days
  26. 3,627 ha Mwense fire, September 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,607 ha in total · 14 days
  27. 3,430 ha Mansa fire, 18 August 2020 1.4% of the municipality · 280,384 ha in total · 44 days
  28. 26,660 ha Mwense fire, August 2020 where it started 11% of the municipality · 27,543 ha in total · 20 days
  29. 6,438 ha Chipili fire, 24 August 2019 2.7% of the municipality · 23,101 ha in total · 24 days
  30. 779 ha Mansa fire, 21 August 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 8,503 ha in total · 24 days
  31. 3,630 ha Mwense fire, 5 August 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,611 ha in total · 20 days
  32. 5,409 ha Mwense fire, 1 August 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 5,585 ha in total · 20 days
  33. 10,245 ha Mwense fire, 29 July 2019 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 10,194 ha in total · 18 days
  34. 9,253 ha Mwense fire, 26 July 2019 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 10,066 ha in total · 19 days
  35. 1 ha Mansa fire, 17 July 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 3,186 ha in total · 13 days
  36. 209 ha Mansa fire, 1 September 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 3,634 ha in total · 8 days
  37. 172 ha Chipili fire, 11 August 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 3,646 ha in total · 8 days
  38. 2,353 ha Mansa fire, 8 August 2018 1.0% of the municipality · 3,774 ha in total · 12 days
  39. 3,288 ha Mwense fire, 4 August 2018 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,264 ha in total · 12 days
  40. 6,244 ha Mwense fire, 4 August 2018 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 6,199 ha in total · 13 days
  41. 9,913 ha Mwense fire, 2 August 2018 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 11,110 ha in total · 8 days
  42. 98 ha Chipili fire, September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 5,849 ha in total · 18 days
  43. 3,189 ha Mwense fire, 23 August 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,171 ha in total · 20 days
  44. 3,748 ha Mwense fire, 21 August 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,727 ha in total · 24 days
  45. 5,528 ha Mwense fire, 20 August 2017 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 5,493 ha in total · 19 days
  46. 550 ha Mansa fire, 15 August 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 258,414 ha in total · 47 days
  47. 13,048 ha Mansa fire, 13 August 2017 5.4% of the municipality · 29,616 ha in total · 27 days
  48. 10,509 ha Mwense fire, 5 August 2017 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 10,432 ha in total · 12 days
  49. 10,491 ha Mwense fire, July 2017 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 10,973 ha in total · 17 days
  50. 3,725 ha Mwense fire, September 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,864 ha in total · 9 days
  51. 4,763 ha Mwense fire, August 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 10,696 ha in total · 21 days
  52. 744 ha Mansa fire, 19 August 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 80,978 ha in total · 31 days
  53. 3,669 ha Mwense fire, 28 July 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,645 ha in total · 13 days
  54. 3,779 ha Mwense fire, 23 July 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,758 ha in total · 21 days
  55. 19,903 ha Mwense fire, 21 July 2016 where it started 8.2% of the municipality · 26,027 ha in total · 23 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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