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Wildfires in Angola

1,964 fires over 5,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 19,648,363 hectares burned across 114 municipalities.

Only fires of 5,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the GWIS yearly series.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Angola, at this point in the year: 18,654,737 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 34,785,891.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–202534,408,167 ha

Worst year2019 40,544,645 ha

With a page here1,964 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	56,245	18,681,808	GWIS
2025	62,676	24,913,534	GWIS
2024	80,504	34,270,472	GWIS
2023	95,576	37,932,069	GWIS
2022	89,627	33,656,971	GWIS
2021	82,299	30,916,414	GWIS
2020	87,212	33,027,995	GWIS
2019	99,562	40,544,645	GWIS
2018	89,015	32,351,788	GWIS
2017	95,889	37,707,619	GWIS
2016	100,487	38,760,163	GWIS
2015	99,602	39,113,166	GWIS
2014	88,931	33,951,564	GWIS
2013	97,070	37,976,477	GWIS
2012	89,383	34,935,039	GWIS

National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.

Hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.

	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	94k	331k	2,862k	2,194k	905k	57k		6,442,230	Capenda-Camulemba 211,891 ha
2025		5k	188k	942k	1,024k	35k		2,193,135	Rivungo 92,552 ha
2024		52k	113k	890k	131k	21k		1,206,015	Rivungo 72,246 ha
2023		53k	228k	732k	272k	12k		1,296,972	Mavinga 35,020 ha
2022	20k	79k	193k	212k	701k	30k		1,235,493	Rivungo 94,385 ha
2021		25k	151k	438k	506k	19k		1,140,146	Nancova 33,936 ha
2020	12k	104k	366k	144k	292k	42k		959,740	Calai 23,514 ha
2019	50k	119k	653k	606k	540k		7k	1,975,064	Dirico 93,844 ha
2018		62k	232k	131k	282k	54k	5k	766,855	Dirico 29,098 ha
2017		84k	197k	493k	547k			1,320,412	Rivungo 36,042 ha
2016	19k	156k	237k	442k	249k	10k		1,112,301	Capenda-Camulemba 34,022 ha