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🇿🇲 Zambia: wildfires in October 2026

Unit: archived detection events, grouped by first-detection day and a roughly 11 km cell. One physical fire can span multiple records; hotspots can also be agricultural, industrial or urban. These counts are not a census of confirmed wildfires. The archive starts on August 3, 2026; the current month is incomplete.

Zambia, October 2026: 9 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 1 October at 15:19.

Busiest day: 1 October, with 9 ignitions detected.

9
archived events
9
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
369
peak power (MW)
"In October 2026, kanari archived 9 detection events in Zambia, with 9 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 369 MW."
Source: kanari.io, NASA FIRMS, GOES and Meteosat MTG satellites plus AI-verified witness reports. Freely citable (CC BY 4.0).

Few fires this month: informative page, handle the figures with care.

Fire ignitions per day

012026-10-01: 9

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Chililabombwe1 Oct, 08:4366369
Kabompo1 Oct, 08:1914148
Mporokoso1 Oct, 07:531550
Nakonde1 Oct, 07:53935
Kataba1 Oct, 07:03830
Kaputa1 Oct, 07:531130
Mufumbwe1 Oct, 08:231427
Kawambwa1 Oct, 07:53820
Chalimbana1 Oct, 06:2080

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Zambia, October 2026: 9 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-01.

Methodology: only significant fires are archived (corroborated by witnesses, or above detection and power thresholds); totals are not comparable to exhaustive official tallies. Full methodology and licence.

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