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Wildfires in Solwezi

Solwezi, Zambia, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 25,648 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 43).

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 Very high 34° · 17 % · 46 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very high 33° · 20 % · 44 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very high 34° · 21 % · 36 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 17 % · 61 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Moderate 33° · 35 % · 43 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Moderate 31° · 32 % · 41 km/h
  7. Sat 31 High 31° · 30 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sun 1 High 32° · 21 % · 30 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

25,648
hectares burned
7.6 %
of its area
9
fires
3,360
km²

How many times has Solwezi burned?

Solwezi has burned 9 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mushindano fire, 8 September 2026, with 5 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 25,648 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 24,348 hectares, 7.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 5× 26
9
fires
4
years with fire
25,648
cumulative ha
24,348
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 Solwezi

  1. 5 ha Mushindano fire, 8 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,711 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 3,217 ha Solwezi fire, August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,514 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 4,124 ha Solwezi fire, July 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,098 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 3,052 ha Mushindano fire, 16 July 2026 0.9% of the municipality · 19,476 ha in total · 50 days
  5. 4,862 ha Solwezi fire, June 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,833 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 783 ha Solwezi fire, August 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,799 ha in total · 25 days
  7. 3,175 ha Solwezi fire, July 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,158 ha in total · 28 days
  8. 3,021 ha Solwezi fire, July 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,383 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 3,409 ha Solwezi fire, August 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,392 ha in total · 15 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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