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Wildfires in Luapula

Luapula, Zambia: 565 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 12 districts since 2016, burning 7,499,926 hectares inside the region. The largest was Chipili in July 2026, with 533,735 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 43).

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
7,499,926ha
Since 2016
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
1.5×
50,127 km²
fires
565
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
12
of 12
Largest fire
533,735ha
Chipili · 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. Fri 23 High 35° · 18 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 34° · 21 % · 44 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 33° · 20 % · 48 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 33° · 22 % · 41 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 33° · 27 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 33° · 27 % · 35 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 33° · 34 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 31° · 40 % · 35 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. Mansa 2,438,737 ha · 3.2×
  2. Kawambwa 1,644,516 ha · 2.0×
  3. Chipili 1,298,201 ha · 3.0×
  4. Milengi 854,948 ha · 1.4×
  5. Mwense 396,374 ha · 1.6×
  6. Chembe 370,768 ha · 1.7×
  7. Samfya 217,322 ha · 66 %
  8. Chifunabuli 133,301 ha · 43 %
  9. Chiengi 73,352 ha · 19 %
  10. Lunga 41,337 ha · 11 %
  11. Mwansabombwe 25,128 ha · 21 %
  12. Nchelenge 10,226 ha · 2.5 %

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
2026471,552,076 Chipili 533,735 ha
202551748,273 Mansa 210,430 ha
202453539,290 Mansa 80,073 ha
202340360,116 Mansa 91,471 ha
202256460,894 Mansa 142,269 ha
202156608,474 Mansa 205,772 ha
202043574,200 Mansa 219,869 ha
201945658,306 Mansa 141,324 ha
201859553,594 Mansa 79,029 ha
201758761,676 Mansa 202,342 ha
201658687,310 Mansa 110,490 ha

All fires in Luapula · 566

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).