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Wildfires in Ndola

Ndola, Zambia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2026: 711 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.7% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 22).

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 6 Very high 34° · 20 % · 51 km/h
  2. Sat 7 High 29° · 32 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 8 High 32° · 32 % · 45 km/h
  4. Mon 9 High 32° · 32 % · 38 km/h
  5. Tue 10 Low 30° · 39 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 11 Moderate 30° · 37 % · 35 km/h
  7. Thu 12 Low 30° · 34 % · 35 km/h
  8. Fri 13 Moderate 29° · 42 % · 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 Ndola: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

711
hectares burned
0.7 %
of its area
2
fires
960
km²

How many times has Ndola burned?

Ndola has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Kitwe fire, July 2026, with 373 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
2
fires
1
years with fire
711
cumulative ha
11 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 Ndola

  1. 373 ha Kitwe fire, July 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 3,855 ha in total · 27 days
  2. 338 ha Masaiti fire, June 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 9,112 ha in total · 30 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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