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Wildfires in Ngabwe

Ngabwe, Zambia, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 45,121 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.2% 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. Sun 25 Extreme 34° · 20 % · 48 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very high 34° · 22 % · 41 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 19 % · 36 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very high 37° · 14 % · 35 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Extreme 36° · 22 % · 42 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very high 33° · 29 % · 40 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very high 34° · 18 % · 45 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very high 33° · 17 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

45,121
hectares burned
6.2 %
of its area
16
fires
7,239
km²

How many times has Ngabwe burned?

Ngabwe has burned 16 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2019, 2020, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Ngabwe fire, 18 August 2026, with 3,205 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 45,121 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 42,514 hectares, 5.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 7× 26
16
fires
5
years with fire
45,121
cumulative ha
42,514
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 Ngabwe

  1. 3,205 ha Ngabwe fire, 18 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,190 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 3,932 ha Ngabwe fire, 14 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,912 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 3,854 ha Ngabwe fire, 8 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,833 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 4,850 ha Ngabwe fire, 30 July 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,816 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 3,243 ha Ngabwe fire, 28 July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,226 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 1,852 ha Ngabwe fire, 18 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,152 ha in total · 26 days
  7. 4,909 ha Ngabwe fire, May 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,881 ha in total · 21 days
  8. 3,956 ha Ngabwe fire, 28 October 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,929 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 1,601 ha Chibombo fire, October 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 14,407 ha in total · 31 days
  10. 5,786 ha Ngabwe fire, 5 October 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,745 ha in total · 22 days
  11. 1,230 ha Chibombo fire, 10 August 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 6,810 ha in total · 31 days
  12. 1,125 ha Chibombo fire, October 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 4,622 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 3,398 ha Ngabwe fire, August 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,374 ha in total · 15 days
  14. 1,420 ha Chibombo fire, October 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 6,083 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 65 ha Mpongwe fire, 30 July 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,196 ha in total · 21 days
  16. 697 ha Chibombo fire, August 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 4,682 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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