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Wildfires in Serenje

Serenje, Zambia, has had 49 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 224,087 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 37).

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. Thu 5 Very high 30° · 27 % · 37 km/h
  2. Fri 6 High 32° · 25 % · 35 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 30° · 39 % · 33 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 40 % · 27 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 29° · 43 % · 43 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 28° · 47 % · 49 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Moderate 29° · 36 % · 33 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Moderate 30° · 29 % · 31 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Serenje: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

224,087
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
49
fires
11,598
km²

How many times has Serenje burned?

Serenje has burned 49 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Chitambo fire, 18 October 2026, with 151 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 24× 26
49
fires
11
years with fire
224,087
cumulative ha
18 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 Serenje

  1. 151 ha Chitambo fire, 18 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,156 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 3,226 ha Serenje fire, 15 October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,200 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 3,080 ha Serenje fire, 14 October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 13,791 ha Serenje fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 13,672 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 2,514 ha Chitambo fire, 11 October 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 6,697 ha in total · 19 days
  6. 3,208 ha Serenje fire, 11 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,183 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 4,193 ha Serenje fire, 11 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,160 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 0 ha Chitambo fire, 10 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,544 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 3,718 ha Serenje fire, 10 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,691 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 2,402 ha Serenje fire, 10 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,151 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 4,359 ha Serenje fire, 8 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,329 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 6,602 ha Serenje fire, 2 September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,562 ha in total · 25 days
  13. 13,330 ha Serenje fire, 30 August 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 16,927 ha in total · 29 days
  14. 4,827 ha Serenje fire, 24 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,792 ha in total · 11 days
  15. 5,472 ha Serenje fire, 19 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,438 ha in total · 23 days
  16. 3,257 ha Serenje fire, 15 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,295 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 1,570 ha Chitambo fire, 15 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 5,344 ha in total · 11 days
  18. 4,272 ha Chitambo fire, 11 August 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 27,617 ha in total · 36 days
  19. 4,388 ha Serenje fire, 9 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,363 ha in total · 22 days
  20. 3,694 ha Serenje fire, 9 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,676 ha in total · 26 days
  21. 19,096 ha Serenje fire, 4 August 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 19,853 ha in total · 29 days
  22. 6,885 ha Serenje fire, 19 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,823 ha in total · 32 days
  23. 4,164 ha Serenje fire, 18 July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,134 ha in total · 22 days
  24. 3,120 ha Serenje fire, 16 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,101 ha in total · 25 days
  25. 3,103 ha Serenje fire, 16 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,082 ha in total · 18 days
  26. 3,088 ha Serenje fire, September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,036 ha in total · 17 days
  27. 12,108 ha Serenje fire, July 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 12,058 ha in total · 23 days
  28. 3,092 ha Serenje fire, 17 September 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,066 ha in total · 13 days
  29. 2,386 ha Serenje fire, 1 September 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,761 ha in total · 12 days
  30. 3,917 ha Serenje fire, 14 August 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,895 ha in total · 17 days
  31. 3,819 ha Serenje fire, 13 August 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,818 ha in total · 13 days
  32. 2,996 ha Serenje fire, September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,309 ha in total · 16 days
  33. 3,601 ha Serenje fire, August 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,577 ha in total · 18 days
  34. 3,578 ha Serenje fire, 24 August 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,557 ha in total · 16 days
  35. 6,243 ha Serenje fire, 18 August 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,217 ha in total · 11 days
  36. 3,150 ha Serenje fire, 11 August 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,165 ha in total · 17 days
  37. 8,742 ha Serenje fire, 17 September 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 8,670 ha in total · 11 days
  38. 3,353 ha Serenje fire, 4 September 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,328 ha in total · 10 days
  39. 4,549 ha Serenje fire, 1 September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,518 ha in total · 17 days
  40. 5,815 ha Serenje fire, 25 August 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,780 ha in total · 14 days
  41. 3,858 ha Serenje fire, 17 August 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,842 ha in total · 11 days
  42. 1,236 ha Chitambo fire, 27 August 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 3,175 ha in total · 11 days
  43. 3,532 ha Serenje fire, 21 August 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,514 ha in total · 17 days
  44. 4,423 ha Serenje fire, 19 August 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,404 ha in total · 12 days
  45. 4,293 ha Serenje fire, 18 August 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,317 ha in total · 11 days
  46. 959 ha Chitambo fire, 17 August 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 3,396 ha in total · 17 days
  47. 3,488 ha Serenje fire, 13 August 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,468 ha in total · 19 days
  48. 4,628 ha Serenje fire, August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,608 ha in total · 8 days
  49. 2,632 ha Chitambo fire, 19 August 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 6,132 ha in total · 14 days
  50. 3,260 ha Serenje fire, July 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,241 ha in total · 13 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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