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Wildfires in Namwala

Namwala, Zambia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 16,089 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.8% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 59).

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 13 Extreme 36° · 19 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Extreme 35° · 26 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sun 15 High 35° · 28 % · 41 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very high 35° · 26 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Extreme 35° · 26 % · 42 km/h
  6. Wed 18 High 32° · 39 % · 51 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Low 29° · 54 % · 40 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Moderate 32° · 44 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Namwala: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

16,089
hectares burned
2.8 %
of its area
3
fires
5,718
km²

How many times has Namwala burned?

Namwala has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Namwala fire, September 2026, with 7,300 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
2
years with fire
16,089
cumulative ha
7 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 Namwala

  1. 7,300 ha Namwala fire, September 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 7,263 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 5,455 ha Namwala fire, June 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,428 ha in total · 31 days
  3. 3,335 ha Namwala fire, May 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,337 ha in total · 25 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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