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Wildfires in Mwinilunga

Mwinilunga, Zambia, has had 26 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 118,996 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 45).

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. Fri 23 Very high 35° · 19 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 35° · 18 % · 50 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 35° · 15 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 34° · 18 % · 40 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 35° · 19 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 33° · 28 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 43 % · 38 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 51 % · 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

118,996
hectares burned
6.3 %
of its area
26
fires
18,816
km²

How many times has Mwinilunga burned?

Mwinilunga has burned 26 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mwinilunga fire, September 2026, with 3,620 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 118,996 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 96,689 hectares, 5.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 8× 25
  11. 8× 26
26
fires
8
years with fire
118,996
cumulative ha
96,689
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 Mwinilunga

  1. 3,620 ha Mwinilunga fire, September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,718 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 3,884 ha Mwinilunga fire, 14 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,858 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 4,530 ha Mwinilunga fire, 12 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,507 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 4,894 ha Mwinilunga fire, 12 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,858 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 4,066 ha Mwinilunga fire, 27 July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,049 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 9,777 ha Mwinilunga fire, 19 July 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 13,928 ha in total · 37 days
  7. 3,880 ha Mwinilunga fire, 18 July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,861 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 2,716 ha Mwinilunga fire, June 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,403 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 5,573 ha Kalumbila fire, 20 September 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 6,858 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 2,629 ha Mwinilunga fire, 18 September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,322 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 10,502 ha Mwinilunga fire, 17 September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 10,509 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 3,097 ha Mwinilunga fire, 17 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,075 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 4,192 ha Mwinilunga fire, 14 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,164 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 3,335 ha Manyinga fire, September 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 9,538 ha in total · 15 days
  15. 387 ha Kalumbila fire, 7 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,064 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 5,260 ha Mwinilunga fire, 1 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,222 ha in total · 13 days
  17. 3,542 ha Mwinilunga fire, 17 August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,844 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 15,605 ha Mwinilunga fire, 17 August 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 15,477 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 3,048 ha Mwinilunga fire, 13 August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,027 ha in total · 10 days
  20. 3,095 ha Mwinilunga fire, October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,072 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 3,669 ha Mwinilunga fire, 20 September 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,642 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 3,319 ha Mwinilunga fire, 8 September 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,845 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 4,658 ha Mwinilunga fire, 23 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,686 ha in total · 7 days
  24. 3,912 ha Mwinilunga fire, 14 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,046 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 19 ha Kalumbila fire, August 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 4,072 ha in total · 7 days
  26. 5,785 ha Kalumbila fire, September 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 19,476 ha in total · 14 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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