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Wildfires in Copperbelt

Copperbelt, Zambia: 93 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 10 districts since 2016, burning 420,420 hectares inside the region. The largest was Lufwanyama in 13 July 2026, with 26,572 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned
420,420ha
Since 2016
Of the region
13%
31,302 km²
fires
93
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 10
Largest fire
26,572ha
Lufwanyama · 13 July 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 14 High 31° · 40 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Moderate 29° · 43 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Low 29° · 46 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 29° · 51 % · 40 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 25° · 71 % · 30 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 28° · 56 % · 31 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 30° · 49 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 29° · 54 % · 31 km/h

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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

  1. Lufwanyama 286,263 ha · 25 %
  2. Mpongwe 85,279 ha · 10 %
  3. Chililabombwe 14,246 ha · 14 %
  4. Masaiti 10,187 ha · 2.8 %
  5. Kitwe 6,449 ha · 7.9 %
  6. Kalulushi 5,765 ha · 5.6 %
  7. Chingola 5,013 ha · 2.9 %
  8. Luanshya 3,342 ha · 3.6 %
  9. Mufulira 3,164 ha · 2.5 %
  10. Ndola 711 ha · 0.7 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (3,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

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

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202651267,458 Lufwanyama 26,572 ha
2025315,115 Lufwanyama 7,688 ha
2024314,760 Lufwanyama 5,743 ha
2023512,529 Lufwanyama 3,932 ha
2022618,791 Lufwanyama 5,806 ha
202123,342 Mpongwe 3,238 ha
2020622,130 Mpongwe 4,592 ha
2019420,509 Lufwanyama 8,704 ha
2018411,631 Lufwanyama 4,466 ha
2017310,255 Lufwanyama 3,756 ha
2016623,901 Lufwanyama 4,982 ha

All fires in Copperbelt · 93

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/Zambia Data Hub (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (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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