Wildfires in Zambia
Situation over the last 30 days
8577 fires detected in Zambia over the last 30 days, totalling 5,596,263 hectares of cumulative footprint. The latest satellite detection (NASA FIRMS) dates from October 21 at 08:17 PM.
The savannas in Zambia burn every dry season, over huge areas but with fast, low-intensity grass fires, largely lit for farming and grazing. Detections are numerous; destructive forest fires are rare.
- Muchinga (ZM)from September 22 at 12:37 AM to October 21 at 08:17 PM1,452,946 ha
- Septentrionale (ZM)from September 22 at 12:59 AM to October 21 at 08:17 PM682,937 ha
- Lusaka (ZM)from September 22 at 01:44 AM to October 21 at 08:15 PM352,800 ha
- Occidentale (ZM)from September 22 at 01:32 PM to October 21 at 02:29 PM81,480 ha
- Luapula (ZM)from September 22 at 01:15 PM to October 21 at 03:40 PM78,387 ha
- Nord-Occidentale (ZM)from September 22 at 01:32 PM to October 21 at 02:29 PM49,670 ha
- Nord-Occidentale (ZM)from October 10 at 01:05 AM to October 21 at 03:40 PM47,645 ha
- Nord-Occidentale (ZM)from September 23 at 01:13 PM to October 21 at 03:40 PM47,447 ha
- Muchinga (ZM)from September 22 at 01:32 PM to October 21 at 08:17 PM46,001 ha
- Luapula (ZM)from September 22 at 01:15 PM to October 21 at 03:40 PM43,330 ha
- Nord-Occidentale (ZM)from September 22 at 01:15 PM to October 21 at 03:40 PM41,568 ha
- Luapula (ZM)from September 22 at 08:50 AM to October 21 at 02:29 PM33,512 ha
- orientale (ZM)from October 4 at 01:08 PM to October 21 at 08:15 PM31,688 ha
- Moxico (AO)from September 22 at 01:44 AM to October 21 at 02:29 PM27,733 ha
- Occidentale (ZM)from September 22 at 01:32 PM to October 21 at 02:27 PM27,196 ha
- Centrale (ZM)from September 22 at 01:13 PM to October 21 at 02:27 PM25,389 ha
- Luapula (ZM)from September 23 at 12:56 PM to October 21 at 02:10 PM24,417 ha
- Occidentale (ZM)from September 23 at 02:34 PM to October 21 at 02:29 PM23,425 ha
- Occidentale (ZM)from September 22 at 01:32 PM to October 21 at 02:27 PM22,649 ha
- Luapula (ZM)from September 22 at 01:15 PM to October 21 at 03:40 PM19,745 ha
- Muchinga (ZM)from September 22 at 01:15 PM to October 21 at 08:17 PM18,339 ha
- Méridionale (ZM)from September 22 at 01:13 PM to October 21 at 02:27 PM18,292 ha
- Septentrionale (ZM)from September 22 at 12:38 PM to October 17 at 02:06 PM18,149 ha
- Copperbelt (ZM)from September 22 at 01:13 PM to October 21 at 02:29 PM17,217 ha
- Septentrionale (ZM)from September 22 at 12:36 PM to October 21 at 03:40 PM16,328 ha
- Septentrionale (ZM)from September 22 at 08:48 AM to October 21 at 02:10 PM15,919 ha
- Centrale (ZM)from September 22 at 01:32 PM to October 21 at 02:29 PM14,586 ha
- Centrale (ZM)from September 22 at 01:44 AM to October 21 at 02:27 PM14,190 ha
- Centrale (ZM)from October 10 at 12:53 PM to October 21 at 08:15 PM13,821 ha
- Centrale (ZM)from October 18 at 04:03 PM to October 21 at 02:27 PM13,493 ha
- Centrale (ZM)from September 22 at 01:44 AM to October 21 at 02:27 PM13,144 ha
- Nord-Occidentale (ZM)from September 22 at 01:34 PM to October 10 at 02:36 PM13,121 ha
- Nord-Occidentale (ZM)from September 24 at 01:38 PM to October 6 at 02:10 PM12,611 ha
- Nord-Occidentale (ZM)from September 23 at 01:57 PM to October 21 at 02:29 PM12,589 ha
- Occidentale (ZM)from September 23 at 01:13 PM to October 21 at 02:27 PM12,365 ha
- Centrale (ZM)from September 23 at 01:13 PM to October 21 at 03:40 PM11,318 ha
- orientale (ZM)from September 23 at 01:57 PM to September 30 at 02:04 PM10,810 ha
- Centrale (ZM)from September 22 at 01:32 PM to October 21 at 02:10 PM9,915 ha
- Luapula (ZM)from September 22 at 08:50 AM to October 21 at 03:40 PM9,752 ha
- Nord-Occidentale (ZM)from September 22 at 01:32 PM to October 21 at 02:29 PM9,601 ha
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These figures come from satellite thermal detection and are not an official tally: only the emergency services of the country concerned are authoritative. The detected footprint overstates the area actually burnt, a pixel counting whole (375 m for VIIRS, 1 km for MODIS) when only an edge burns. A freshly detected fire may not yet carry a place name and will then not appear in this list, though it is already on the map.
Learn more: what a forest fire is and how satellites detect it
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