Feshi fire, 4 June 2026 Kasongo-Lunda, Feshi
The fire started on 4 June 2026 in Feshi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,995 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 94th largest in Kwango since 2016 (of 220 with a page). Number 301 in Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2026, of 523.
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- Burnt area
- 6,995ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 10days
- 4 Jun 2026 – 13 Jun 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- territories
- Started on
- 4 Jun
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 126
- in a single hotspot: 0 MW
- Average daily power
- 254MW
- detected power per day, on average
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.
This area had burned before
91% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3,333 ha in 2016, 1,499 ha in 2017, 1,258 ha in 2018, 1,733 ha in 2019, 2,000 ha in 2020, 835 ha in 2021, 1,475 ha in 2022, 3,243 ha in 2023, 922 ha in 2024, 798 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 6,375 ha that had burned before.
- 1,263 ha Kasongo-Lunda fire, June 2020 6,060 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,258 ha Feshi fire, June 2018 5,050 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 737 ha Feshi fire, June 2020 5,875 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
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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5,437 ha0.2 %
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Feshi where it started1,599 ha0.1 %
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 2025Inside the perimeter there were about 3.2 hectares of built-up land and about 650 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
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 10 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 216 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 150: 10.0 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 · 0Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 18,234 haKasongo-Lunda8 August 2026 · 27 days · 27 km away
- 15,576 haKasongo-Lunda8 August 2025 · 27 days · 35 km away
- 18,588 haKasongo-Lunda5 August 2020 · 15 days · 36 km away
- 18,122 haFeshi4 June 2026 · 12 days · 37 km away
- 49,340 haKasongo-Lunda5 August 2026 · 23 days · 38 km away
- 22,145 haKasongo-Lunda7 August 2026 · 21 days · 38 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Feshi fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 4 June 2026 and 13 June 2026: 10 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 6,995 hectares (70.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Kasongo-Lunda (5,437 ha, 0.2 %); Feshi (1,599 ha, 0.1 %).
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Democratic Republic of the Congo (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.
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 5 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 20 June 2026 → 13 June 2026.
- Start date: 29 May 2026 → 4 June 2026.
- Name: Kasongo-Lunda → Feshi.
- Last day with fire: 13 June 2026 → 20 June 2026.
- Start date: 4 June 2026 → 29 May 2026.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- 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 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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.