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Wildfires in Eastern

Eastern, Zambia: 64 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 14 districts since 2016, burning 332,971 hectares inside the region. The largest was Nyimba in 1 September 2016, with 28,333 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 47).

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

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
332,971ha
Since 2016
Of the region
6.4%
52,028 km²
fires
64
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
5
of 14
Largest fire
28,333ha
Nyimba · 1 September 2016
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Extreme 40° · 13 % · 45 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 36° · 26 % · 40 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very high 38° · 20 % · 35 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very high 39° · 19 % · 33 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very high 40° · 15 % · 31 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very high 40° · 20 % · 52 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very high 36° · 27 % · 46 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very high 37° · 19 % · 41 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Nyimba 250,991 ha · 24 %
  2. Lusangazi 46,417 ha · 13 %
  3. Mambwe 17,326 ha · 3.0 %
  4. Lumezi 17,283 ha · 1.8 %
  5. Chasefu 4,720 ha · 1.6 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 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
20261244,123 Lumezi 4,797 ha
2025525,110 Nyimba 12,246 ha
202413,118 Lusangazi 3,118 ha
202314,399 Nyimba 4,399 ha
2022869,411 Nyimba 26,253 ha
2021523,412 Nyimba 6,658 ha
202027,693 Lusangazi 4,224 ha
20191141,795 Lusangazi 4,605 ha
2018521,535 Nyimba 7,446 ha
2017626,119 Nyimba 6,337 ha
2016970,024 Nyimba 28,333 ha

All fires in Eastern · 65

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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