Wildfires in Lubombo
Lubombo, Eswatini: 12 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 11 tinkhundla since 2016, burning 16,166 hectares inside the region. The largest was Mhlume in July 2024, with 2,201 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).
Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 16,166ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.8%
- 5,858 km²
- fires
- 12
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 5
- of 11
- Largest fire
- 2,201ha
- Mhlume · July 2024
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 27 Low 31° · 51 % · 56 km/h
- Wed 28 Moderate 25° · 39 % · 49 km/h
- Thu 29 Moderate 26° · 38 % · 28 km/h
- Fri 30 Moderate 30° · 39 % · 31 km/h
- Sat 31 Moderate 30° · 39 % · 39 km/h
- Sun 1 High 34° · 33 % · 45 km/h
- Mon 2 Moderate 32° · 46 % · 34 km/h
- Tue 3 Moderate 35° · 39 % · 36 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Mhlume 6,219 ha · 8.2 %
- Hlane 4,773 ha · 10 %
- Dvokodvweni 2,386 ha · 4.1 %
- Mpolonjeni 1,773 ha · 3.1 %
- Siphofaneni 1,015 ha · 1.9 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 6×Mhlume6,219 ha
- 5×Hlane4,773 ha
- 4×Dvokodvweni2,386 ha
- 2×Mpolonjeni1,773 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 2,201 haMhlumeJuly 2024 · 36 days of 2,431 ha in total
- 1,721 haDvokodvweniSeptember 2023 · 2 days
- 1,519 haSiphofaneniJuly 2019 · 1 day
- 1,481 haHlaneAugust 2023 · 6 days
- 1,445 haMhlumeJune 2021 · 25 days
- 1,411 haDvokodvweniOctober 2026 · 4 days
- 1,268 haMpolonjeniSeptember 2021 · 2 days
- 1,201 haMhlumeJune 2022 · 35 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 1,411 | Dvokodvweni 1,411 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 1,022 | Hlane 1,022 ha |
| 2024 | 2 | 3,234 | Mhlume 2,201 ha |
| 2023 | 2 | 3,202 | Dvokodvweni 1,721 ha |
| 2022 | 2 | 2,282 | Mhlume 1,201 ha |
| 2021 | 2 | 2,713 | Mhlume 1,445 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 784 | Hlane 784 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 1,519 | Siphofaneni 1,519 ha |
All fires in Lubombo · 12
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,411 haDvokodvweniOctober 2026 · 4 days
- 1,022 haHlaneAugust 2025 · 1 day
- 1,033 haHlaneOctober 2024 · 1 day
- 2,201 haMhlumeJuly 2024 · 36 days of 2,431 ha in total
- 1,721 haDvokodvweniSeptember 2023 · 2 days
- 1,481 haHlaneAugust 2023 · 6 days
- 1,080 haMhlumeJuly 2022 · 13 days
- 1,201 haMhlumeJune 2022 · 35 days
- 1,268 haMpolonjeniSeptember 2021 · 2 days
- 1,445 haMhlumeJune 2021 · 25 days
- 784 haHlaneAugust 2020 · 3 days of 1,184 ha in total
- 1,519 haSiphofaneniJuly 2019 · 1 day
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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