Is Bwana Mkubwa safe? Zambia travel risk
Is Bwana Mkubwa safe right now? Checked 16 October 2026
Bwana Mkubwa scores 42/100 on our travel risk index (Moderate). The US State Department rates Zambia Level 1 (Exercise Normal Precautions, updated 31 Jul 2023); the UK has no advice against travel; Canada says: exercise normal security precautions (with regional advisories). No GDACS or USGS hazard events within 100 km in the last 14 days. No change in government advice in the last 7 days.
Bwana Mkubwa scores 42/100 (Moderate). The score combines security, crime and scams, health and medical access, natural hazards and current alerts measured for this location and Zambia (how it is calculated). The sections below are specific to Bwana Mkubwa: nearest emergency and transport facilities, 5-year natural hazard history within 100 km.
Driven by: security (35/100) and health and medical access (54/100).
A score of 42 is higher than the scores of 54% of the 241 countries we cover.
Consult the Zambia travel risk page for nationwide security advisories, entry protocols, and consular warnings.
Geographic & Regional Coordinates
Bwana Mkubwa belongs to Copperbelt (Zambia), centered at coordinates 12.9833° S, 28.7000° E. Distance to Lusaka is 274.3 km towards the S.
Copperbelt
12.9833° S, 28.7000° E
Lowland
UTC
118,464
Emergency & Aviation Access
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Natural Hazard Calendar & History
5-Year Hazard Calendar (100 km Radius)
| Hazard | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wildfires | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 9 | 11 | 6 | — | — | — |
Most wildfire events within 100 km of Bwana Mkubwa happened in August (11 of 27 in five years).
Source: GDACS, USGS; five years to October 2026.
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