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Wildfires in Sioma

Sioma, Zambia, has had 29 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 107,141 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 49).

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. Mon 2 Very high 39° · 10 % · 38 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very high 38° · 15 % · 37 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very high 39° · 13 % · 34 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very high 39° · 16 % · 34 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Extreme 39° · 16 % · 37 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very high 37° · 21 % · 43 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Low 35° · 26 % · 53 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Moderate 34° · 30 % · 36 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

107,141
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
29
fires
8,545
km²

How many times has Sioma burned?

Sioma has burned 29 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sioma fire, October 2026, with 2,734 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 107,141 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 82,577 hectares, 9.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 8× 26
29
fires
10
years with fire
107,141
cumulative ha
82,577
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 Sioma

  1. 2,734 ha Sioma fire, October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,236 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 4,430 ha Sioma fire, 16 September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,397 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 8,186 ha Sioma fire, 7 September 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 8,119 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 297 ha Sesheke fire, 20 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,107 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 518 ha Sesheke fire, 20 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,002 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 3,599 ha Sioma fire, August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,576 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,910 ha Sioma fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,564 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 4,913 ha Sioma fire, June 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,894 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 10,652 ha Sioma fire, September 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 11,079 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 1,687 ha Sioma fire, 14 September 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,062 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 3,245 ha Sioma fire, 10 September 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,219 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 3,598 ha Sioma fire, 21 April 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,578 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 3,610 ha Sioma fire, 18 April 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,591 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 3,056 ha Sioma fire, May 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,035 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 3,630 ha Sioma fire, April 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,610 ha in total · 17 days
  16. 3,588 ha Sioma fire, October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,562 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 5,069 ha Sioma fire, September 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,031 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 4,107 ha Sesheke fire, July 2022 0.5% of the municipality · 11,109 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 6,742 ha Sioma fire, 2 September 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,692 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 3,097 ha Sioma fire, 1 September 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,073 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 1,814 ha Sesheke fire, 18 August 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 3,016 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 1,363 ha Sesheke fire, 10 August 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 3,190 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 933 ha Sesheke fire, 10 August 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 4,063 ha in total · 9 days
  24. 1,110 ha Sesheke fire, 1 August 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 3,130 ha in total · 6 days
  25. 3,733 ha Sioma fire, September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,704 ha in total · 13 days
  26. 5,686 ha Sioma fire, 29 September 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 7,637 ha in total · 12 days
  27. 6,985 ha Sioma fire, 7 September 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 11,042 ha in total · 21 days
  28. 3,596 ha Sioma fire, 30 July 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,565 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 3,252 ha Sioma fire, 24 July 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,299 ha in total · 4 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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