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Wildfires in Manzini

Manzini, Eswatini: 19 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 15 tinkhundla since 2016, burning 21,253 hectares inside the region. The largest was Mahlangatja in 19 July 2019, with 1,967 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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: 21,253ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 5.2%; 4,109 km²
fires: 19; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 12; of 15
Largest fire: 1,967ha; Mahlangatja · 19 July 2019
Inhabitants: —

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast

Mon 26 Very low 30° · 57 % · 35 km/h
Tue 27 Very low 29° · 61 % · 65 km/h
Wed 28 Very low 24° · 48 % · 31 km/h
Thu 29 Low 24° · 48 % · 28 km/h
Fri 30 Low 25° · 53 % · 30 km/h
Sat 31 Low 26° · 53 % · 36 km/h
Sun 1 Very low 30° · 49 % · 29 km/h
Mon 2 Very low 28° · 56 % · 32 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

Mahlangatja 6,466 ha · 14 %
Mhlambanyatsi 3,242 ha · 6.6 %
Ekukhanyeni 2,539 ha · 11 %
Mkhiweni 1,898 ha · 4.5 %
Ngwempisi 1,504 ha · 2.6 %
Lobamba Lomdzala 1,486 ha · 9.7 %
Ntondozi 1,173 ha · 4.7 %
Mangcongco 1,065 ha · 2.6 %
Ludzeludze 1,062 ha · 6.0 %
Mafutseni 576 ha · 2.4 %
Manzini 237 ha · 5.5 %
Nhlambeni 5 ha · 0.0 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

5×Mahlangatja6,466 ha
4×Mkhiweni1,898 ha
3×Mhlambanyatsi3,242 ha
3×Ekukhanyeni2,539 ha
3×Ngwempisi1,504 ha
2×Lobamba Lomdzala1,486 ha
2×Ntondozi1,173 ha
2×Mangcongco1,065 ha

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Year	fires	hectares burned	Largest of the year
2026	2	1,673	Mangcongco 988 ha
2025	1	557	Gege 557 ha
2024	3	3,498	Mkhiweni 1,809 ha
2023	2	2,735	Mhlambanyatsi 1,477 ha
2020	2	1,917	Mahlangatja 1,512 ha
2019	7	9,451	Mahlangatja 1,967 ha
2017	1	8	Maphalaleni 8 ha
2016	1	1,413	Ekukhanyeni 1,413 ha

All fires in Manzini · 19

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

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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