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Wildfires in Rufunsa

Rufunsa, Zambia, has had 43 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 208,703 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 39).

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 24 Extreme 34° · 25 % · 55 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 32° · 31 % · 46 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 33° · 26 % · 39 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 36° · 18 % · 31 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very high 37° · 15 % · 37 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 33° · 32 % · 36 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 32° · 34 % · 39 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 31° · 25 % · 41 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

208,703
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
43
fires
9,551
km²

How many times has Rufunsa burned?

Rufunsa has burned 43 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Rufunsa fire, 16 October 2026, with 9,531 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 208,703 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 143,906 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 5× 21
  7. 5× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 13× 26
43
fires
10
years with fire
208,703
cumulative ha
143,906
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 Rufunsa

  1. 9,531 ha Rufunsa fire, 16 October 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 9,490 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 4,694 ha Rufunsa fire, 15 October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,659 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 3,196 ha Rufunsa fire, 14 October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,345 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 3,665 ha Rufunsa fire, 14 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,643 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 3,433 ha Rufunsa fire, 14 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,411 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 685 ha Rufunsa fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,027 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 28,458 ha Rufunsa fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 29,039 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 4,519 ha Rufunsa fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,488 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 4,109 ha Rufunsa fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,085 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 7,228 ha Rufunsa fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 7,918 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 3,131 ha Rufunsa fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,109 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 3,504 ha Rufunsa fire, 11 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,507 ha in total · 14 days
  13. 22 ha Luano fire, 18 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 4,133 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 286 ha Luangwa fire, October 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,090 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 3,082 ha Rufunsa fire, July 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,060 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 298 ha Luangwa fire, October 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 4,814 ha in total · 11 days
  17. 1,487 ha Kafue fire, September 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 3,253 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 6,523 ha Rufunsa fire, 5 October 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,476 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 5,115 ha Rufunsa fire, 2 October 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,095 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 1,243 ha Kafue fire, October 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 14,407 ha in total · 18 days
  21. 3,190 ha Rufunsa fire, 23 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,170 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 5,770 ha Rufunsa fire, 21 September 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,729 ha in total · 11 days
  23. 1,049 ha Rufunsa fire, November 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,107 ha in total · 7 days
  24. 7,712 ha Luangwa fire, October 2021 0.8% of the municipality · 15,689 ha in total · 24 days
  25. 3,087 ha Rufunsa fire, 19 September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,522 ha in total · 14 days
  26. 5,948 ha Rufunsa fire, 13 September 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,908 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 8,501 ha Rufunsa fire, 9 September 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 8,464 ha in total · 14 days
  28. 3,393 ha Rufunsa fire, October 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,371 ha in total · 8 days
  29. 3,416 ha Rufunsa fire, September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,393 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 5,043 ha Rufunsa fire, 26 October 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,150 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 73 ha Kafue fire, October 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 4,289 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 7,739 ha Rufunsa fire, 17 October 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 8,833 ha in total · 10 days
  33. 10,983 ha Rufunsa fire, September 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 11,002 ha in total · 17 days
  34. 3,768 ha Rufunsa fire, October 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,893 ha in total · 8 days
  35. 5,203 ha Rufunsa fire, September 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 23,797 ha in total · 28 days
  36. 4,877 ha Kafue fire, September 2018 0.5% of the municipality · 32,071 ha in total · 17 days
  37. 3,411 ha Rufunsa fire, 15 October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,389 ha in total · 4 days
  38. 9,705 ha Rufunsa fire, 14 October 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 12,878 ha in total · 6 days
  39. 3,989 ha Rufunsa fire, 2 October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,972 ha in total · 7 days
  40. 3,222 ha Rufunsa fire, October 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,208 ha in total · 3 days
  41. 3,661 ha Rufunsa fire, 16 September 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,646 ha in total · 4 days
  42. 3,378 ha Rufunsa fire, 3 September 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,354 ha in total · 8 days
  43. 7,379 ha Rufunsa fire, 1 September 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 15,943 ha in total · 32 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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