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Wildfires in Northern

Northern, Zambia: 704 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 12 districts since 2016, burning 5,234,413 hectares inside the region. The largest was Luwingu in 18 August 2026, with 134,768 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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
5,234,413ha
Since 2016
Of the region
67%
78,035 km²
fires
704
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
12
of 12
Largest fire
134,768ha
Luwingu · 18 August 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 Very low 26° · 52 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 28° · 47 % · 26 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 28° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 27° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 26° · 64 % · 32 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 28° · 50 % · 33 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 29° · 49 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 29° · 42 % · 34 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. Lupososhi 1,165,766 ha · 2.8×
  2. Mporokoso 871,968 ha · 2.1×
  3. Kasama 836,647 ha · 79 %
  4. Lunte 459,955 ha · 59 %
  5. Mungwi 456,748 ha · 47 %
  6. Luwingu 454,797 ha · 92 %
  7. Mpulungu 345,163 ha · 34 %
  8. Chilubi 244,592 ha · 47 %
  9. Nsama 232,044 ha · 31 %
  10. Kaputa 92,573 ha · 18 %
  11. Senga Hill 74,077 ha · 14 %
  12. Mbala 82 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
20261211,215,805 Luwingu 134,768 ha
202581708,821 Kasama 92,250 ha
202434263,623 Mansa 36,751 ha
202337216,888 Mansa 42,696 ha
202260371,065 Mansa 44,507 ha
202155383,063 Mansa 55,588 ha
202070459,155 Mansa 62,313 ha
201970468,338 Mansa 50,190 ha
201847243,553 Mporokoso 36,269 ha
201759442,217 Mporokoso 65,190 ha
201670461,885 Kawambwa 44,951 ha

All fires in Northern · 705

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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