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Wildfires in Nkeyema

Nkeyema, Zambia, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 15,676 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.1% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 35).

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. Sat 31 High 33° · 31 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sun 1 High 34° · 19 % · 31 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very high 35° · 14 % · 34 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very high 35° · 17 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very high 35° · 18 % · 35 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very high 35° · 18 % · 38 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very high 36° · 20 % · 48 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Low 33° · 58 % · 52 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

15,676
hectares burned
4.1 %
of its area
8
fires
3,796
km²

How many times has Nkeyema burned?

Nkeyema has burned 8 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mumbwa fire, 11 October 2026, with 187 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 5× 26
8
fires
3
years with fire
15,676
cumulative ha
11 Oct 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 Nkeyema

  1. 187 ha Mumbwa fire, 11 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,888 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 4,595 ha Nkeyema fire, 18 July 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,566 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 3,022 ha Nkeyema fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,005 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 3,108 ha Nkeyema fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,087 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 4,288 ha Mufumbwe fire, 17 July 2026 1.1% of the municipality · 5,130 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 243 ha Nkeyema fire, September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,957 ha in total · 18 days
  7. 142 ha Mumbwa fire, October 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 5,788 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 92 ha Mufumbwe fire, 2 August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 4,506 ha in total · 6 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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