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Wildfires in Nyimba

Nyimba, Zambia, has had 43 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 252,170 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 24% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 47).

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 28 Extreme 42° · 15 % · 37 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very high 38° · 26 % · 35 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very high 37° · 25 % · 37 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very high 37° · 20 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very high 38° · 16 % · 35 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very high 39° · 15 % · 27 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very high 40° · 17 % · 26 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Extreme 41° · 12 % · 46 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

252,170
hectares burned
24 %
of its area
43
fires
10,581
km²

How many times has Nyimba burned?

Nyimba has burned 43 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Nyimba fire, 21 October 2026, with 4,174 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 252,170 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 166,476 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 4× 18
  4. 8× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 7× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 8× 26
43
fires
10
years with fire
252,170
cumulative ha
166,476
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 Nyimba

  1. 4,174 ha Nyimba fire, 21 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,156 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 3,766 ha Nyimba fire, 15 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 3,981 ha Nyimba fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,955 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 3,740 ha Nyimba fire, 25 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,714 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 4,478 ha Nyimba fire, 14 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,450 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 4,142 ha Nyimba fire, August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,114 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 4,237 ha Nyimba fire, July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,208 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 4,581 ha Nyimba fire, 6 June 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,555 ha in total · 28 days
  9. 3,588 ha Nyimba fire, 3 June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,565 ha in total · 23 days
  10. 12,246 ha Nyimba fire, 6 September 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 12,166 ha in total · 21 days
  11. 4,719 ha Nyimba fire, 5 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,695 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 3,392 ha Nyimba fire, 5 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,367 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 4,399 ha Nyimba fire, October 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,382 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 7,277 ha Nyimba fire, 12 October 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 7,250 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 3,478 ha Nyimba fire, 7 October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,455 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 3,403 ha Nyimba fire, 1 October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,387 ha in total · 14 days
  17. 12,337 ha Nyimba fire, 26 September 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 12,248 ha in total · 21 days
  18. 9,962 ha Nyimba fire, 22 September 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 9,920 ha in total · 16 days
  19. 26,253 ha Nyimba fire, 18 September 2022 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 26,082 ha in total · 31 days
  20. 3,602 ha Nyimba fire, 10 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,581 ha in total · 12 days
  21. 4,314 ha Nyimba fire, November 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,292 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 6,658 ha Nyimba fire, October 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,613 ha in total · 18 days
  23. 4,554 ha Nyimba fire, September 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,525 ha in total · 7 days
  24. 3,469 ha Nyimba fire, September 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,453 ha in total · 12 days
  25. 3,070 ha Nyimba fire, October 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,057 ha in total · 8 days
  26. 4,151 ha Nyimba fire, 20 September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,124 ha in total · 11 days
  27. 3,094 ha Nyimba fire, 19 September 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,076 ha in total · 6 days
  28. 4,081 ha Nyimba fire, 5 September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,061 ha in total · 10 days
  29. 4,181 ha Nyimba fire, 29 August 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,152 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 4,522 ha Nyimba fire, 27 August 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,494 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 3,982 ha Nyimba fire, 5 July 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,958 ha in total · 11 days
  32. 3,084 ha Nyimba fire, 2 July 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,063 ha in total · 9 days
  33. 3,202 ha Nyimba fire, October 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,183 ha in total · 9 days
  34. 4,379 ha Nyimba fire, 16 August 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,357 ha in total · 12 days
  35. 3,139 ha Nyimba fire, 11 August 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,118 ha in total · 5 days
  36. 7,446 ha Nyimba fire, 2 August 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 7,395 ha in total · 5 days
  37. 6,337 ha Nyimba fire, October 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,292 ha in total · 10 days
  38. 3,805 ha Nyimba fire, 24 September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,781 ha in total · 6 days
  39. 3,236 ha Nyimba fire, 11 September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,220 ha in total · 9 days
  40. 0 ha Rufunsa fire, 16 September 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,646 ha in total · 7 days
  41. 3,756 ha Nyimba fire, 12 September 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,741 ha in total · 15 days
  42. 3,309 ha Nyimba fire, 3 September 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,285 ha in total · 15 days
  43. 12,082 ha Nyimba fire, 3 September 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 12,012 ha in total · 22 days
  44. 28,333 ha Nyimba fire, 1 September 2016 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 28,146 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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