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Wildfires in Samfya

Samfya, Zambia, has had 45 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 217,322 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 66% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 44).

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 23 Very high 34° · 20 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 34° · 20 % · 45 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 33° · 18 % · 44 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 33° · 21 % · 44 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 33° · 26 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 34° · 26 % · 36 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 32° · 30 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 28° · 40 % · 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

217,322
hectares burned
66 %
of its area
45
fires
3,305
km²

How many times has Samfya burned?

Samfya has burned 45 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Samfya fire, August 2026, with 5,658 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 6× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 8× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 3× 26
45
fires
11
years with fire
217,322
cumulative ha
10 Aug 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 Samfya

  1. 5,658 ha Samfya fire, August 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 8,770 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 80,594 ha Milengi fire, 3 August 2026 24% of the municipality · 169,563 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 985 ha Milengi fire, 17 July 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 167,326 ha in total · 54 days
  4. 173 ha Milengi fire, 20 August 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 4,272 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 4,038 ha Samfya fire, August 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,994 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 2,229 ha Milengi fire, 16 August 2025 0.7% of the municipality · 3,280 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,098 ha Milengi fire, 14 August 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 5,075 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 195 ha Milengi fire, 13 August 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 4,328 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 3,585 ha Samfya fire, 14 August 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,564 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 3,478 ha Samfya fire, 12 August 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,453 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 6,387 ha Samfya fire, 12 August 2024 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 7,750 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 4,594 ha Samfya fire, 11 August 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 8,559 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 4,054 ha Samfya fire, 9 August 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,211 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 5,768 ha Samfya fire, 9 August 2024 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 5,728 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 1,881 ha Samfya fire, 5 August 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,127 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 5,827 ha Milengi fire, 26 July 2024 1.8% of the municipality · 30,020 ha in total · 23 days
  17. 3,620 ha Samfya fire, September 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,748 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 3,749 ha Samfya fire, August 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,723 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 2,440 ha Milengi fire, 21 August 2023 0.7% of the municipality · 5,427 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 730 ha Milengi fire, 10 August 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 15,153 ha in total · 18 days
  21. 225 ha Lunga fire, 14 October 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 4,257 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 5 ha Lunga fire, 4 October 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 4,443 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 3,441 ha Samfya fire, August 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,416 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 130 ha Milengi fire, 20 August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 5,562 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 200 ha Lunga fire, December 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 3,377 ha in total · 8 days
  26. 228 ha Milengi fire, 20 August 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 5,294 ha in total · 2 days
  27. 6,017 ha Samfya fire, August 2021 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 5,975 ha in total · 4 days
  28. 701 ha Milengi fire, 19 August 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 3,523 ha in total · 3 days
  29. 86 ha Milengi fire, 12 August 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,276 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 3,496 ha Samfya fire, August 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,046 ha in total · 4 days
  31. 687 ha Milengi fire, 19 August 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 3,878 ha in total · 7 days
  32. 11,735 ha Samfya fire, 19 August 2018 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 21,038 ha in total · 10 days
  33. 4,061 ha Samfya fire, 19 August 2018 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,032 ha in total · 2 days
  34. 3,563 ha Samfya fire, 17 August 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,540 ha in total · 5 days
  35. 920 ha Milengi fire, 13 August 2018 0.3% of the municipality · 10,954 ha in total · 12 days
  36. 3,945 ha Milengi fire, 13 August 2018 1.2% of the municipality · 6,852 ha in total · 18 days
  37. 9,440 ha Mansa fire, 9 August 2018 2.9% of the municipality · 19,276 ha in total · 11 days
  38. 157 ha Milengi fire, 15 August 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,948 ha in total · 2 days
  39. 1,779 ha Milengi fire, 15 August 2017 0.5% of the municipality · 14,856 ha in total · 16 days
  40. 9,935 ha Samfya fire, August 2017 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 9,864 ha in total · 5 days
  41. 80 ha Lavushimanda fire, 14 October 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,453 ha in total · 10 days
  42. 253 ha Milengi fire, 15 August 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 6,690 ha in total · 12 days
  43. 7,633 ha Samfya fire, 15 August 2016 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 7,580 ha in total · 5 days
  44. 304 ha Mansa fire, 13 August 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 4,300 ha in total · 6 days
  45. 7,218 ha Samfya fire, 12 August 2016 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 11,697 ha in total · 5 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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