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Wildfires in Nchelenge

Nchelenge, Zambia, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 10,226 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 10 Very low 29° · 55 % · 41 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 28° · 58 % · 18 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 26° · 63 % · 23 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very low 25° · 72 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 26° · 73 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 27° · 65 % · 22 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 26° · 74 % · 22 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 26° · 71 % · 24 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 Nchelenge: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

10,226
hectares burned
2.5 %
of its area
6
fires
4,116
km²

How many times has Nchelenge burned?

Nchelenge has burned 6 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Kawambwa fire, 17 August 2026, with 167 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,226 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,701 hectares, 2.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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6
fires
3
years with fire
10,226
cumulative ha
9,701
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 Nchelenge

  1. 167 ha Kawambwa fire, 17 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 4,123 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 2,710 ha Nchelenge fire, 29 July 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,161 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 4,215 ha Nchelenge fire, 21 July 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,192 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 1,925 ha Kawambwa fire, 13 July 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 26,238 ha in total · 44 days
  5. 488 ha Kawambwa fire, 8 August 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 4,457 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 721 ha Kawambwa fire, 20 August 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 3,010 ha in total · 16 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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