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Manono fire, 9 June 2026 Manono, Malemba-Nkulu

Out · last detection 27 Jun 2026, 11:44 UTC

The fire started on 9 June 2026 in Manono, Congo - Kinshasa, and satellites saw it burning for 18 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 9,757 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 43th largest in Tanganyika since 2016 (of 232 with a page). Number 188 in Congo - Kinshasa in 2026, of 523.

Burnt area
9,757ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
18days
9 Jun 2026 – 26 Jun 2026
Municipalities hit
2
territories
Started on
9 Jun
2026
Heat detections
343
in a single hotspot: 213 MW
Danger at start
29
High · FWI index
Energy released
3.0GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

27 Jun 2026
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 9 Jun26 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

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Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

36°high
44km/h · peak gust
20%lowest humidity

It had gone 24 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

54% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,188 ha in 2016, 1,357 ha in 2017, 1,781 ha in 2018, 1,197 ha in 2019, 1,411 ha in 2020, 80 ha in 2023, 274 ha in 2024, 31 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 5,232 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Manono where it started
    6,187 ha reached on 2 Jun
    0.2 %
  2. Malemba-Nkulu
    3,631 ha reached on 5 Jun
    0.2 %

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)
5 Jun 34.9 °C 31 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
6 Jun 34.5 °C 35 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
7 Jun 32.5 °C 42 % 31 km/h 0.2 mm High 29
8 Jun 33.1 °C 36 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
9 Jun 33.8 °C 33 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
10 Jun 34.4 °C 30 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
11 Jun 34.6 °C 28 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
12 Jun 33.7 °C 29 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
13 Jun 33.6 °C 27 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
14 Jun 34.4 °C 26 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
15 Jun 34.0 °C 28 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
16 Jun 33.0 °C 31 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
17 Jun 33.9 °C 28 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
18 Jun 34.1 °C 27 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
19 Jun 34.5 °C 26 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
20 Jun 33.9 °C 28 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
21 Jun 32.5 °C 28 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
22 Jun 32.8 °C 23 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
23 Jun 33.4 °C 23 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
24 Jun 33.9 °C 22 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
25 Jun 33.9 °C 26 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
26 Jun 34.0 °C 27 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
27 Jun after 33.1 °C 20 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
28 Jun after 33.5 °C 20 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
29 Jun after 33.6 °C 22 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
30 Jun after 34.8 °C 23 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
1 Jul after 34.6 °C 25 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
2 Jul after 35.5 °C 20 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
3 Jul after 35.4 °C 20 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
4 Jul after 34.9 °C 19 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
5 Jul after 33.9 °C 23 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
6 Jul after 33.1 °C 24 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
7 Jul after 32.7 °C 27 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
8 Jul after 33.5 °C 29 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
9 Jul after 34.6 °C 24 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
10 Jul after 35.1 °C 22 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
11 Jul after 34.9 °C 22 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
12 Jul after 34.3 °C 27 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
13 Jul after 34.2 °C 27 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 2 Jun 2026
After · 3 Jul 2026

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 · Copernicus

On 28 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 59 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 32: 2.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak59 µg/m³
Days over the guideline7 days
PM1062 µg/m³
Optical depth0.75
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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 · 343Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Manono fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 9 June 2026 and 26 June 2026: 18 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 9,757 hectares (97.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Manono (6,187 ha, 0.2 %); Malemba-Nkulu (3,631 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.5 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 44 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 45, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Congo - Kinshasa (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 (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.