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Wildfires in Southern

Southern, Zambia: 71 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 13 districts since 2016, burning 307,999 hectares inside the region. The largest was Itezhi-Tezhi in 10 September 2019, with 16,661 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).

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
307,999ha
Since 2016
Of the region
4.5%
68,579 km²
fires
71
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 13
Largest fire
16,661ha
Itezhi-Tezhi · 10 September 2019
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 7 Very high 34° · 20 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sun 8 High 33° · 34 % · 27 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Low 30° · 45 % · 44 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 30° · 44 % · 31 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Moderate 30° · 37 % · 31 km/h
  6. Thu 12 High 32° · 19 % · 36 km/h
  7. Fri 13 High 32° · 27 % · 38 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 32° · 58 % · 41 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. Kazungula 234,396 ha · 13 %
  2. Mazabuka 31,011 ha · 7.7 %
  3. Namwala 16,089 ha · 2.8 %
  4. Monze 11,226 ha · 2.3 %
  5. Sinazongwe 7,668 ha · 1.6 %
  6. Gwembe 7,411 ha · 1.8 %
  7. Kalomo 132 ha · 0.0 %
  8. Chikankanta 65 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
20261773,164 Namwala 7,300 ha
20251146,347 Kazungula 6,922 ha
202427,845 Mazabuka 4,733 ha
202313,872 Kazungula 3,872 ha
2022622,714 Kazungula 10,641 ha
20211313 Itezhi-Tezhi 313 ha
202024,484 Kazungula 4,479 ha
2019952,672 Itezhi-Tezhi 16,661 ha
2018415,878 Kazungula 7,608 ha
2017618,047 Kazungula 4,430 ha
20161262,662 Kazungula 7,478 ha

All fires in Southern · 71

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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