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Wildfires in Zambezi

Zambezi, Zambia, has had 24 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 95,526 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.8% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 26).

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. Sat 14 High 30° · 41 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sun 15 High 32° · 38 % · 32 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Moderate 32° · 40 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 29° · 62 % · 33 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 27° · 70 % · 35 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 27° · 63 % · 29 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 28° · 62 % · 32 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 28° · 67 % · 25 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 Zambezi: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

95,526
hectares burned
6.8 %
of its area
24
fires
14,047
km²

How many times has Zambezi burned?

Zambezi has burned 24 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2020, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Zambezi fire, 24 September 2026, with 3,247 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 95,526 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 79,326 hectares, 5.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 6× 25
  11. 15× 26
24
fires
5
years with fire
95,526
cumulative ha
79,326
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 Zambezi

  1. 3,247 ha Zambezi fire, 24 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,230 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 4,435 ha Zambezi fire, 8 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,411 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 6,325 ha Zambezi fire, 8 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,301 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 3,604 ha Zambezi fire, 8 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,588 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 3,452 ha Zambezi fire, 22 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,436 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 1 ha Kabompo fire, 22 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,803 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 3,101 ha Zambezi fire, 19 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,078 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 7,201 ha Zambezi fire, 19 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,172 ha in total · 24 days
  9. 4,039 ha Zambezi fire, 19 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,016 ha in total · 17 days
  10. 4,553 ha Zambezi fire, 17 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,532 ha in total · 18 days
  11. 3,377 ha Zambezi fire, 15 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,361 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 3,238 ha Zambezi fire, 29 July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,214 ha in total · 12 days
  13. 3,057 ha Zambezi fire, 27 July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,040 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 4,114 ha Zambezi fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,088 ha in total · 17 days
  15. 3,095 ha Zambezi fire, 15 July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,096 ha in total · 25 days
  16. 3,120 ha Zambezi fire, 2 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,104 ha in total · 12 days
  17. 4,751 ha Zambezi fire, 1 October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,726 ha in total · 15 days
  18. 6,841 ha Zambezi fire, 1 October 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,344 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 4,723 ha Zambezi fire, 6 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,021 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 3,297 ha Zambezi fire, 4 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,281 ha in total · 18 days
  21. 3,150 ha Zambezi fire, August 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,136 ha in total · 14 days
  22. 3,829 ha Zambezi fire, August 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,810 ha in total · 17 days
  23. 4,415 ha Zambezi fire, September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,393 ha in total · 31 days
  24. 4,564 ha Zambezi fire, October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,542 ha in total · 7 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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