Burned area
satellite only10,180ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 12 Aug 2024 – 31 Aug 2024
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AO · Angola · –
Cunda-dia-Baze fire, August 2024 Cunda-dia-Baze, Marimba
Out · last detection 31 Aug 2024, 00:07 UTC
The fire started on 12 August 2024 in Cunda-dia-Baze, Angola, and satellites saw it burning for 20 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 10,180 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 3th largest in Malanje since 2016 (of 60 with a page). Number 25 in Angola in 2024, of 135.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only20days
12 Aug 2024 to 31 Aug 2024: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 31 Aug 2024, 00:07 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only12 Aug 2024
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 12 Aug 2024
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only340
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 263 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 12 Aug 2024 – 31 Aug 2024
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only7,417MW
Total radiative power on 19 August 2024; hotspots that day: 138.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 19 Aug 2024
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model29.3FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 60.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 12 Aug 2024, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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Weather during the fire
model35.0°C · 18% RH
High of 35.0 °C and minimum humidity of 18% on 26 August 2024; gusts of 42 km/h on 31 August 2024.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 12 Aug 2024 – 31 Aug 2024
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
Living inside
model≈ 150people
Estimated residents inside the perimeter and 0.54 ha of built-up area (100 m grid, epoch 2025).
- Source
- GHSL R2023A · JRC
- Date
- calculated on 24 October 2026
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This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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logLast day with fire: 24 August 2024 → 31 August 2024.
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logStart date: 18 August 2024 → 12 August 2024.
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
What was saved on 26 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 10,180 ha
- Dates
- 12 Aug 2024 – 31 Aug 2024
- Name
- Cunda-dia-Baze
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/cunda-dia-baze-2024-08?v=2026-10-26A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire cunda-dia-baze-2024-08.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-12 | 0 | 0 | 31.7 | 16.4 | 32 | 9.8 | 20.9 | 0 | 29.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-13 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 17.3 | 32 | 10.7 | 21.6 | 0 | 27.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-14 | 0 | 0 | 31.6 | 17.8 | 34 | 11.2 | 20.9 | 0 | 25.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-15 | 3 | 13 | 32.1 | 18.1 | 37 | 8.5 | 20.5 | 0 | 26.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-16 | 0 | 0 | 31.8 | 18.7 | 36 | 9.2 | 24.8 | 0 | 27.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-17 | 0 | 0 | 32.6 | 18.8 | 31 | 8.9 | 25.6 | 0 | 33.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-18 | 1 | 3 | 34.1 | 16.5 | 23 | 10.9 | 28.8 | 0 | 39.1 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-19 | 138 | 7,417 | 34.1 | 16 | 20 | 9.3 | 26.3 | 0 | 38.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-20 | 73 | 342 | 32.9 | 15.5 | 22 | 7.2 | 22.3 | 0 | 38.1 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-21 | 22 | 280 | 33 | 15.9 | 22 | 9.3 | 26.3 | 0 | 41.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-22 | 13 | 110 | 33.3 | 16.8 | 23 | 9.4 | 22 | 0 | 37.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-23 | 2 | 14 | 32.4 | 18.3 | 25 | 9.9 | 24.8 | 0 | 34.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-24 | 1 | 1 | 32.7 | 15.6 | 27 | 7.5 | 24.5 | 0 | 35.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-25 | 10 | 39 | 34.2 | 17.1 | 18 | 8.1 | 25.6 | 0 | 45.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-26 | 25 | 705 | 35 | 16.3 | 18 | 9.7 | 33.5 | 0 | 48.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-27 | 1 | 4 | 33.4 | 16.1 | 26 | 8.4 | 24.5 | 0 | 40.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-28 | 11 | 81 | 32.9 | 16.8 | 32 | 9.9 | 18 | 0 | 33.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-29 | 27 | 1,319 | 31.4 | 19.7 | 41 | 10.9 | 19.4 | 0 | 26.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-30 | 6 | 42 | 32.1 | 20.8 | 40 | 11.4 | 22.3 | 0 | 25.4 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-31 | 7 | 15 | 30.9 | 19.3 | 40 | 14.2 | 41.8 | 0.1 | 24.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-09-01 | 0 | 0 | 32.3 | 21.3 | 39 | 12.4 | 32.8 | 0.2 | 34.8 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-09-02 | 0 | 0 | 34.8 | 21.5 | 25 | 14.1 | 32.8 | 0 | 42.6 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2024-09-03 | 0 | 0 | 34.5 | 19.7 | 23 | 12.6 | 31 | 0 | 48.5 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2024-09-04 | 0 | 0 | 34.6 | 17.8 | 18 | 10.3 | 30.2 | 0 | 52.5 | extremo | 0 |
| 2024-09-05 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 18.1 | 32 | 13.2 | 25.9 | 0 | 37 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-09-06 | 0 | 0 | 33.9 | 19.3 | 32 | 11.6 | 21.2 | 0 | 28.9 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 34.7 | 20.8 | 33 | 12.7 | 23.8 | 0.1 | 29 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-09-08 | 0 | 0 | 32.4 | 20.8 | 43 | 10.6 | 24.5 | 0.4 | 23.3 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-09-09 | 0 | 0 | 33.7 | 21.1 | 40 | 9.8 | 18.7 | 0 | 22.5 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-09-10 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 21.5 | 33 | 11.9 | 22.7 | 0.1 | 24 | alto | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 10,180ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 20days
- 12 Aug 2024 – 31 Aug 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 12 Aug
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 340
- in a single hotspot: 263 MW
- Danger at start
- 29
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 692MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
12 Aug31 Aug
31 Aug 2024
How it evolved, day by day
19 Aug
23 Aug
26 Aug
29 Aug
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
35°high
42km/h · peak gust
18%lowest humidity
It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
94% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,063 ha in 2016, 2,657 ha in 2017, 3,403 ha in 2018, 2,231 ha in 2019, 3,170 ha in 2020, 2,744 ha in 2021, 4,196 ha in 2022, 3,295 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 9,583 ha that had burned before.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Cunda-dia-Baze where it started10,076 ha reached on 15 Aug3.0 %
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167 ha reached on 20 Aug0.0 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Built-up area0.54 ha
Residents≈ 150
Inside the perimeter there were about 0.54 hectares of built-up land and about 150 residents (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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)
Started with 60 days without rain: 84 % of the area in Angola
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Aug | 31.7 °C | 32 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 13 Aug | 32.0 °C | 32 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 14 Aug | 31.6 °C | 34 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 15 Aug | 32.1 °C | 37 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 16 Aug | 31.8 °C | 36 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 17 Aug | 32.6 °C | 31 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 18 Aug | 34.1 °C | 23 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 19 Aug | 34.1 °C | 20 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 20 Aug | 32.9 °C | 22 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 21 Aug | 33.0 °C | 22 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 22 Aug | 33.3 °C | 23 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 23 Aug | 32.4 °C | 25 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 24 Aug | 32.7 °C | 27 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 25 Aug | 34.2 °C | 18 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 26 Aug | 35.0 °C | 18 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 27 Aug | 33.4 °C | 26 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 28 Aug | 32.9 °C | 32 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 29 Aug | 31.4 °C | 41 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 30 Aug | 32.1 °C | 40 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 31 Aug | 30.9 °C | 40 % | 42 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 24 |
| 1 Sept after | 32.3 °C | 39 % | 33 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 35 |
| 2 Sept after | 34.8 °C | 25 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 3 Sept after | 34.5 °C | 23 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 4 Sept after | 34.6 °C | 18 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 5 Sept after | 32.0 °C | 32 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 6 Sept after | 33.9 °C | 32 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 7 Sept after | 34.7 °C | 33 % | 24 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 29 |
| 8 Sept after | 32.4 °C | 43 % | 24 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 23 |
| 9 Sept after | 33.7 °C | 40 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 10 Sept after | 35.0 °C | 33 % | 23 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 24 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 29.3, a minimum humidity of 32% and more than two months without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 31.
FWI at the start
29.3
Minimum humidity
32 %
Days without rain
60+
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Cunda-dia-Baze fire, August 2024
10,180 ha
20 days
FWI 29.3
Min. humidity 32 %
Kasongo-Lunda fire, August 2017
5,361 ha
19 days
FWI 30.9
Min. humidity 33 %
160 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.5 mm on 1 Sept.
Marimba fire, July 2023
7,155 ha
17 days
FWI 27.4
Min. humidity 35 %
21 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Kasongo-Lunda fire, August 2020
13,236 ha
15 days
FWI 30.7
Min. humidity 33 %
182 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.5 mm on 24 Aug.
Kasongo-Lunda fire, August 2018
6,940 ha
19 days
FWI 28.0
Min. humidity 35 %
184 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 9.8 mm on 26 Aug.
Kasongo-Lunda fire, August 2018
11,810 ha
24 days
FWI 31.4
Min. humidity 30 %
242 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.9 mm on 8 Sept.
What happened to them
- 16 days
- median duration
- 5,800 ha
- median area
- 10 %
- went past 10,000 ha
- 1.8 mm
- rain at the end (median; 14 of 31 had it)
It was 1.8 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 20 days, against 16 days.
Only 3 of its 31 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 17 of 31, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 1.8 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
—first rain
—no rain in ten days
42km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 31 Aug, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 14 of 31, with a median of 1.8 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 5 Aug 2024
After · 7 Sept 2024
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 25 August 2024 the air beside the fire reached 86 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 68: 4.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak86 µg/m³
Days over the guideline12 days
PM10123 µg/m³
Optical depth1.91
WHO 15
16 Aug19 Aug22 Aug25 Aug
Good
Fair
Moderate
Poor
Very poor
Extremely poor
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 · 340Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Cunda-dia-Baze fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 12 August 2024 to 31 August 2024 (20 days). The perimeter dates it from 18 August 2024 to 24 August 2024.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 10,180 hectares (101.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Cunda-dia-Baze (10,076 ha, 3.0 %); Marimba (167 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 35.0 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 49, class Very 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.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 31. Their median duration was 16 days and their median area 5,800 ha; 10 % went past 10,000 ha. Only 3 of its 31 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 17 of 31, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 1.8 mm.
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.
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 24 August 2024 → 31 August 2024.
- Start date: 18 August 2024 → 12 August 2024.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 18 August 2024 to 24 August 2024. 340 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.