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Wildfires in Republic of the Congo in 2017

71 fires larger than 1,000 hectares in Republic of the Congo in 2017, with 107,362 hectares burned according to their perimeters. Here is the whole year: what the official record says, when and where it burned and what the weather was like.

Only fires of 1,000 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 year in a few sentences

  1. According to Copernicus GWIS, 1,513,189 hectares burned in Republic of the Congo in 2017: 88% of the average of the other years from 2012 to 2024 (1,714,763 ha).

    Copernicus GWIS · See the data

  2. The worst week was 23 July to 29 July: 250,910 hectares burned in seven days, 17% of the year according to Copernicus GWIS.

    Copernicus GWIS · See the data

  3. The largest fire was the Okoyo fire, which started on 4 July 2017 and burned 6,639 hectares: 6% of the area of the year's 71 fires with a page.

    WorldFires · See the data · Open the fire page

  4. The day of highest danger at a fire this year was 2 August 2017: a Fire Weather Index of 17 (moderate on the EFFIS scale) at the Madingou fire, calculated by WorldFires from ERA5.

    WorldFires · ERA5 · See the data · Open the fire page

Official burned area
1.5 M ha
Copernicus GWIS · ×0.9 the average
Fires with a page
71
107,362 ha within their perimeters
Largest fire
6,639 ha
Okoyo · 4 Jul
Highest FWI
17 Moderate
2 Aug · Madingou

Map of the year

Copernicus GWIS
One circle per fire, sized by its area. Tap one to open its page.

Month by month

Hectares within the perimeters by the month the fire started. Tap a month to see it on the map.

Week by week, against other years

Copernicus GWIS

Cumulative burned area in 2017 over the lowest and highest of each week in the record since 2012, and its average. The bars below show what burned each week. Tap the chart to see a week. The average and the band are the Copernicus GWIS climatology for 2012–2025, which includes 2017 itself.

0 673k 1.3 M 2.0 M Worst week · 251k ha Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov
2017 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest Hectares each week

Every year since 2012

Copernicus GWIS

Hectares burned per year in the official record. Tap a year to open its yearbook.

2017: 1,513,189 ha Average of the other years: 1,714,763 ha

Cite this

Markdown version

Copy the sentences with their source and link. WorldFires data are CC BY 4.0: credit WorldFires and the original source.

- According to Copernicus GWIS, 1,513,189 hectares burned in Republic of the Congo in 2017: 88% of the average of the other years from 2012 to 2024 (1,714,763 ha).
- The worst week was 23 July to 29 July: 250,910 hectares burned in seven days, 17% of the year according to Copernicus GWIS.
- The largest fire was the Okoyo fire, which started on 4 July 2017 and burned 6,639 hectares: 6% of the area of the year's 71 fires with a page.
- The day of highest danger at a fire this year was 2 August 2017: a Fire Weather Index of 17 (moderate on the EFFIS scale) at the Madingou fire, calculated by WorldFires from ERA5.

WorldFires, “Wildfires in Republic of the Congo in 2017”, https://worldfires.org/en/country/congo-brazzaville/2017 (accessed 7 November 2026). Sources: Copernicus GWIS, WorldFires, WorldFires · ERA5.

Fires of 2017, largest first · 71

Sources and limits

Fire-page areas are satellite-measured perimeters and may differ from official statistics. The yearly and weekly record is the Copernicus GWIS estimate. The FWI is our own calculation from ERA5 at each fire's location: it is not an official danger warning.

Perimeters: Copernicus EFFIS and GWIS (and MTBS, NIFC or NBAC in North America). Hotspots: NASA FIRMS (VIIRS). Weather: Copernicus ERA5 via Open-Meteo. How it is calculated