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Wildfires in Western

Western, Zambia: 181 fires with a page have entered 14 of its 16 districts since 2016, burning 791,741 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sesheke in 6 September 2016, with 26,707 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 34).

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 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
791,741ha
Since 2016
Of the region
6.2%
128,126 km²
fires
181
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
14
of 16
Largest fire
26,707ha
Sesheke · 6 September 2016
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 28 High 35° · 21 % · 29 km/h
  2. Thu 29 High 36° · 19 % · 57 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Moderate 32° · 38 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sat 31 High 33° · 28 % · 30 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very high 37° · 16 % · 34 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very high 37° · 13 % · 35 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very high 36° · 14 % · 34 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very high 37° · 18 % · 32 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. Lukulu 282,125 ha · 30 %
  2. Sesheke 212,772 ha · 18 %
  3. Sioma 107,141 ha · 13 %
  4. Kaoma 62,983 ha · 7.0 %
  5. Kalabo 34,384 ha · 3.8 %
  6. Luampa 29,067 ha · 2.8 %
  7. Sikongo 18,649 ha · 2.3 %
  8. Nkeyema 15,676 ha · 4.1 %
  9. Mulobezi 11,850 ha · 1.0 %
  10. Mwandi 10,831 ha · 1.9 %
  11. Limulunga 7,688 ha · 1.9 %
  12. Senanga 3,041 ha · 0.3 %

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
202661254,666 Sesheke 11,070 ha
20251568,712 Sioma 11,165 ha
20241366,777 Lukulu 13,695 ha
2023824,370 Kaoma 3,830 ha
20221675,287 Sesheke 11,179 ha
2021939,796 Lukulu 7,483 ha
2020727,735 Sesheke 6,491 ha
20191979,551 Lukulu 13,426 ha
20181663,221 Sioma 11,129 ha
2017833,152 Lukulu 5,268 ha
20161164,605 Sesheke 26,707 ha

All fires in Western · 183

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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