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Wildfires in Sikongo

Sikongo, Zambia, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 18,649 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.3% 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. Sun 25 High 35° · 20 % · 36 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very high 35° · 21 % · 47 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 20 % · 35 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very high 37° · 18 % · 29 km/h
  5. Thu 29 High 36° · 23 % · 33 km/h
  6. Fri 30 High 34° · 34 % · 45 km/h
  7. Sat 31 High 34° · 27 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very high 36° · 16 % · 38 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

18,649
hectares burned
2.3 %
of its area
5
fires
8,134
km²

How many times has Sikongo burned?

Sikongo has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Sikongo fire, 25 June 2026, with 4,333 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
5
fires
3
years with fire
18,649
cumulative ha
25 Jun 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 Sikongo

  1. 4,333 ha Sikongo fire, 25 June 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,322 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 3,825 ha Sikongo fire, 13 June 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,815 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 3,279 ha Sikongo fire, August 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,256 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 3,989 ha Sikongo fire, 18 September 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,672 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 3,223 ha Sikongo fire, 15 September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,200 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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