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Wildfires in Congo - Kinshasa

1,752 fires over 5,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 18,784,411 hectares burned across 100 territories.

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

Congo - Kinshasa, at this point in the year: 22,426,506 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 41,487,346.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–202542,513,644 ha

Worst year2016 50,760,014 ha

With a page here1,752 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	67,600	22,428,070	GWIS
2025	79,241	30,928,546	GWIS
2024	94,738	37,788,091	GWIS
2023	112,283	41,110,881	GWIS
2022	123,594	44,203,933	GWIS
2021	118,431	41,536,208	GWIS
2020	123,415	47,213,078	GWIS
2019	116,420	43,833,341	GWIS
2018	113,189	42,244,180	GWIS
2017	119,135	45,518,172	GWIS
2016	133,167	50,760,014	GWIS
2015	122,855	47,376,138	GWIS
2014	112,008	41,650,242	GWIS
2013	120,832	46,066,845	GWIS
2012	104,278	38,655,468	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.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	192k	588k	131k	11k	424k	1,696k	1,581k	2,413k	134k				7,170,837	Bulungu 305,095 ha
2025	125k	16k	8k		6k	41k	351k	453k	54k		5k	7k	1,066,266	Dungu 64,646 ha
2024	29k	169k	150k		11k	545k	280k	278k	21k			7k	1,492,660	Lodja 100,633 ha
2023	46k	16k				11k	469k	292k					834,318	Lodja 121,496 ha
2022	26k	8k			48k	479k	187k	123k	35k	17k			921,621	Lodja 116,070 ha
2021	53k	144k			66k	87k	288k	87k	6k			32k	763,285	Dungu 30,917 ha
2020	243k	53k	12k			306k	877k	248k	61k	38k		7k	1,845,371	Kazumba 148,354 ha
2019	109k	86k	8k			295k	285k	213k	14k				1,010,379	Faradje 80,671 ha
2018	152k		7k		58k	260k	513k	96k	21k			57k	1,164,536	Lodja 85,816 ha
2017	232k	6k			98k	307k	245k	180k	35k			27k	1,130,590	Dungu 58,675 ha
2016	233k	32k			13k	408k	466k	195k	27k	10k			1,384,548	Lodja 43,985 ha