Conda fire, July 2026 Conda, Ebo
The fire started on 22 July 2026 in Conda, Angola, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,487 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 63th largest in Cuanza Sul since 2016 (of 79 with a page). Number 410 in Angola in 2026, of 485.
- Burnt area
- 5,487ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 5days
- 22 Jul 2026 – 26 Jul 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 22 Jul
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 104
- in a single hotspot: 99 MW
- Danger at start
- 26
- High · FWI index
- Energy released
- 914MW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
75% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 142 ha in 2016, 954 ha in 2017, 1,709 ha in 2019, 784 ha in 2020, 4 ha in 2021, 1,939 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 4,136 ha that had burned before.
What happened to each town
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Conda where it started5,422 ha reached on 24 Jul2.7 %
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99 ha0.0 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
The weather day by day
ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Jul | 26.7 °C | 42 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 23 Jul | 28.3 °C | 33 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 24 Jul | 28.0 °C | 33 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 25 Jul | 28.2 °C | 25 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 26 Jul | 27.3 °C | 31 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 27 Jul after | 26.7 °C | 33 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 28 Jul after | 26.1 °C | 34 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 29 Jul after | 26.4 °C | 30 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 30 Jul after | 26.1 °C | 34 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 31 Jul after | 28.1 °C | 31 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 1 Aug after | 26.5 °C | 38 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 2 Aug after | 25.9 °C | 38 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 3 Aug after | 26.2 °C | 37 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 4 Aug after | 25.2 °C | 51 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 5 Aug after | 24.6 °C | 52 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 6 Aug after | 25.6 °C | 43 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 7 Aug after | 26.8 °C | 35 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 8 Aug after | 26.5 °C | 36 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 9 Aug after | 26.9 °C | 33 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 10 Aug after | 27.6 °C | 29 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 26 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 210 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 154: 10 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Detections table · 104Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Conda fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 22 July 2026 and 26 July 2026: 5 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 5,487 hectares (54.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Conda (5,422 ha, 2.7 %); Ebo (99 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 28.3 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 31, class High.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Angola (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
Where to verify it
A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.
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Where this data comes from
The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Public Domain). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.