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Wildfires in Muchinga

Muchinga, Zambia: 553 fires with a page have entered 9 of its 9 districts since 2016, burning 5,137,584 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kanchibiya in 25 August 2025, with 295,779 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 51).

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
5,137,584ha
Since 2016
Of the region
59%
86,969 km²
fires
553
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
9
of 9
Largest fire
295,779ha
Kanchibiya · 25 August 2025
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 Extreme 34° · 14 % · 52 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 32° · 20 % · 54 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 30° · 26 % · 53 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 30° · 32 % · 48 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 32° · 23 % · 41 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 33° · 17 % · 41 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 33° · 18 % · 61 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 30° · 30 % · 47 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Shiwang'Andu 1,643,966 ha · 1.8×
  2. Kanchibiya 1,495,740 ha · 1.7×
  3. Mpika 997,249 ha · 58 %
  4. Lavushimanda 481,733 ha · 34 %
  5. Chama 221,059 ha · 13 %
  6. Mafinga 207,837 ha · 50 %
  7. Chinsali 64,735 ha · 10 %
  8. Nakonde 21,719 ha · 4.6 %
  9. Isoka 3,546 ha · 0.7 %

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
2026911,263,511 Luwingu 267,250 ha
202550900,898 Kanchibiya 295,779 ha
202424197,268 Shiwang'Andu 58,655 ha
202334192,073 Shiwang'Andu 14,183 ha
202252273,582 Shiwang'Andu 28,506 ha
202151350,766 Kanchibiya 42,476 ha
202051544,865 Kanchibiya 73,333 ha
201945262,054 Shiwang'Andu 18,401 ha
201847259,138 Chama 21,384 ha
201751423,083 Shiwang'Andu 70,591 ha
201657470,346 Shiwang'Andu 57,504 ha

All fires in Muchinga · 553

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).