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Wildfires in Lusaka

Lusaka, Zambia: 81 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 505,498 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kafue in September 2018, with 32,268 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 48).

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 page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
505,498ha
Since 2016
Of the region
21%
23,609 km²
fires
81
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 7
Largest fire
32,268ha
Kafue · September 2018
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 13 Very high 35° · 20 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very high 36° · 25 % · 38 km/h
  3. Sun 15 High 33° · 32 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 16 High 34° · 31 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very high 32° · 31 % · 42 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Moderate 27° · 58 % · 48 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Low 30° · 53 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 31° · 47 % · 38 km/h
  9. Sat 21 Very low 32° · 45 % · 33 km/h

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Burning now in the region

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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. Luangwa 219,910 ha · 56 %
  2. Rufunsa 183,114 ha · 19 %
  3. Kafue 102,461 ha · 23 %
  4. Chilanga 12 ha · 0.0 %

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
202624137,010 Luangwa 29,716 ha
2025522,649 Kafue 9,357 ha
202426,192 Luangwa 3,110 ha
202328,122 Luangwa 4,847 ha
2022863,712 Kafue 14,493 ha
20211167,559 Luangwa 15,803 ha
2020620,847 Luangwa 3,854 ha
2019643,309 Rufunsa 11,085 ha
2018672,989 Kafue 32,268 ha
2017632,285 Rufunsa 12,970 ha
2016530,823 Rufunsa 16,052 ha

All fires in Lusaka · 82

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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