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Wildfires in Nakonde

Nakonde, Zambia, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 21,719 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.6% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

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. Thu 5 Low 31° · 34 % · 26 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Moderate 31° · 38 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Moderate 32° · 32 % · 36 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Low 31° · 39 % · 31 km/h
  5. Mon 9 High 33° · 20 % · 35 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Moderate 31° · 34 % · 35 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Moderate 32° · 32 % · 62 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 30° · 38 % · 34 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Nakonde: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

21,719
hectares burned
4.6 %
of its area
6
fires
4,763
km²

How many times has Nakonde burned?

Nakonde has burned 6 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2026. The most recent: Nakonde fire, September 2026, with 5,876 hectares inside the municipality.

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6
fires
2
years with fire
21,719
cumulative ha
6 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 Nakonde

  1. 5,876 ha Nakonde fire, September 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,838 ha in total · 22 days
  2. 3,767 ha Nakonde fire, August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,746 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 314 ha Nakonde fire, 20 July 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,667 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 5,218 ha Nakonde fire, 1 July 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,189 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 3,342 ha Nakonde fire, June 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,320 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 3,202 ha Nakonde fire, June 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,181 ha in total · 4 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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