Wildfires in Shiselweni
Shiselweni, Eswatini: 12 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 14 tinkhundla since 2016, burning 14,663 hectares inside the region. The largest was Somntongo in July 2019, with 3,367 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
- 14,663ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 3.9%
- 3,793 km²
- fires
- 12
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 8
- of 14
- Largest fire
- 3,367ha
- Somntongo · July 2019
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 23° · 57 % · 35 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 26° · 54 % · 35 km/h
- Sun 25 Moderate 30° · 46 % · 46 km/h
- Mon 26 Moderate 30° · 48 % · 38 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 31° · 40 % · 58 km/h
- Wed 28 Moderate 24° · 43 % · 48 km/h
- Thu 29 Moderate 24° · 38 % · 38 km/h
- Fri 30 Moderate 25° · 41 % · 30 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Somntongo 7,698 ha · 24 %
- Gege 2,968 ha · 5.3 %
- Mtsambama 2,333 ha · 8.5 %
- Zombodze 1,019 ha · 4.6 %
- Matsanjeni 299 ha · 0.7 %
- Sandleni 295 ha · 1.8 %
- Nkwene 50 ha · 0.2 %
- Maseyisini 1 ha · 0.0 %
Largest recorded fires
- 3,367 haSomntongoJuly 2019 · 4 days
- 2,165 haSomntongoAugust 2018 · 6 days
- 1,372 haSomntongoSeptember 2021 · 1 day
- 1,365 haMtsambamaSeptember 2017 · 4 days
- 1,263 haMtsambamaSeptember 2026 · 2 days
- 1,251 haGegeAugust 2019 · 3 days of 1,666 ha in total
- 1,092 haSomntongoJune 2019 · 5 days of 1,273 ha in total
- 1,091 haGegeAugust 2026 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Shiselweni · 12
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,263 haMtsambamaSeptember 2026 · 2 days
- 1,091 haGegeAugust 2026 · 1 day
- 615 haGegeAugust 2025 · 1 day of 1,168 ha in total
- 12 haMahlangatjaSeptember 2023 · 3 days of 1,264 ha in total
- 1,372 haSomntongoSeptember 2021 · 1 day
- 1,251 haGegeAugust 2019 · 3 days of 1,666 ha in total
- 3,367 haSomntongoJuly 2019 · 4 days
- 50 haMahlangatja19 July 2019 · 2 days of 1,549 ha in total
- 1,092 haSomntongoJune 2019 · 5 days of 1,273 ha in total
- 2,165 haSomntongoAugust 2018 · 6 days
- 1,019 haZombodzeSeptember 2017 · 1 day
- 1,365 haMtsambamaSeptember 2017 · 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/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).