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Wildfires in Muchinga
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 93,930 km² of Muchinga at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 59,070 km², ranking 4th of 10 regions of Zambia.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2016, with 63,320 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 54,120 km². The 2021–2025 average is 5.5% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
August, September and October together hold 83% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 18 September 2018, with detections in 2,435 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 93,930 km² with at least one detection, 97% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,210 | 1.3% |
| 2 years | 1,400 | 1.5% |
| 3 to 5 years | 9,520 | 10% |
| 6 to 10 years | 53,190 | 57% |
| 11 years or more | 28,600 | 30% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -9.75, 31.75 and holds 4.4% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 59,600 | 70,000 |
| 2013 | 62,280 | 74,812 |
| 2014 | 57,980 | 68,444 |
| 2015 | 61,380 | 74,163 |
| 2016 | 63,320 | 77,731 |
| 2017 | 59,520 | 70,873 |
| 2018 | 57,780 | 67,376 |
| 2019 | 58,390 | 69,327 |
| 2020 | 59,020 | 70,208 |
| 2021 | 56,870 | 67,690 |
| 2022 | 57,220 | 68,855 |
| 2023 | 57,420 | 68,589 |
| 2024 | 54,120 | 63,461 |
| 2025 | 62,100 | 78,885 |
Other regions of Zambia
- Northwestern82,900 km² in an average year
- Western77,200 km² in an average year
- Central59,410 km² in an average year
- Northern43,770 km² in an average year
- Luapula32,860 km² in an average year
- Southern31,690 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- Northern78 km
- Chitipa, Malawi225 km
- Rumphi, Malawi245 km
- Mbeya, Tanzania248 km
- Mzimba, Malawi275 km
- Rukwa, Tanzania298 km