Burned area
satellite only7,726ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 6 Jun 2022 – 11 Jun 2022
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CD · Democratic Republic of the Congo · –
Feshi fire, 6 June 2022 Feshi, Masi-Manimba
Out · last detection 11 Jun 2022, 13:08 UTC
The fire started on 6 June 2022 in Feshi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,726 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 26th largest in Kwango since 2016 (of 124 with a page). Number 36 in Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2022, of 106.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only6days
6 Jun 2022 to 11 Jun 2022: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 11 Jun 2022, 13:08 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 only6 Jun 2022
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 6 Jun 2022
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
The worst day
satellite only1,990MW
Total radiative power on 10 June 2022; hotspots that day: 68.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 10 Jun 2022
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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
model22.2FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 10.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 6 Jun 2022, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model32.9°C · 19% RH
High of 32.9 °C and minimum humidity of 19% on 11 June 2022; gusts of 38 km/h on 7 June 2022.
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- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 6 Jun 2022 – 11 Jun 2022
- 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≈ 600people
Estimated residents inside the perimeter and 4.3 ha of built-up area (100 m grid, epoch 2020).
- Source
- GHSL R2023A · JRC
- Date
- calculated on 28 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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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
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logLast day with fire: 14 June 2022 → 11 June 2022.
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logStart date: 31 May 2022 → 6 June 2022.
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logName: Masi-Manimba → Feshi.
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logLast day with fire: 11 June 2022 → 14 June 2022.
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logStart date: 6 June 2022 → 31 May 2022.
Area logged each night
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/feshi-2022-06-4?v=2026-10-27A 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 feshi-2022-06-4.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-06-06 | 18 | 157 | 32.2 | 19.5 | 25 | 11.2 | 29.5 | 0 | 22.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-06-07 | 12 | 179 | 31.5 | 19 | 26 | 14.7 | 38.5 | 0 | 25 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-06-08 | 26 | 352 | 31.9 | 18.9 | 23 | 12.3 | 33.8 | 0 | 24.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-06-09 | 55 | 1,084 | 31.8 | 18.4 | 22 | 13.5 | 36.7 | 0 | 26.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-06-10 | 68 | 1,990 | 32 | 16.1 | 21 | 13.4 | 36 | 0 | 27.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-06-11 | 35 | 721 | 32.9 | 17.6 | 19 | 11.5 | 28.8 | 0 | 28.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-06-12 | 0 | 0 | 32.6 | 17.9 | 26 | 10.6 | 24.1 | 0 | 28.5 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-06-13 | 0 | 0 | 32.3 | 20.9 | 26 | 10.5 | 23 | 0 | 29 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-06-14 | 0 | 0 | 29.5 | 19.3 | 41 | 9.4 | 28.1 | 0 | 22.2 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-06-15 | 0 | 0 | 31.7 | 19.8 | 32 | 6.1 | 19.8 | 0 | 20.8 | moderado | 0 |
| 2022-06-16 | 0 | 0 | 31.3 | 20.6 | 35 | 9.4 | 19.1 | 0.1 | 23.1 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-06-17 | 0 | 0 | 32.9 | 19.3 | 22 | 12.7 | 29.9 | 0 | 30.1 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-06-18 | 0 | 0 | 29.8 | 17.4 | 34 | 11.3 | 22.3 | 0 | 27.1 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-06-19 | 0 | 0 | 30.1 | 17.9 | 36 | 8.7 | 22 | 0 | 24.6 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-06-20 | 0 | 0 | 30.1 | 20.1 | 42 | 9.2 | 19.8 | 0.1 | 22.9 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-06-21 | 0 | 0 | 30.2 | 21.3 | 42 | 5.8 | 27.4 | 0.7 | 16.3 | moderado | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 7,726ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 6days
- 6 Jun 2022 – 11 Jun 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- territories
- Started on
- 6 Jun
- 2022
- Heat detections
- 214
- in a single hotspot: 0 MW
- Danger at start
- 22
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 747MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
6 Jun11 Jun
11 Jun 2022
How it evolved, day by day
6 Jun
8 Jun
10 Jun
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
33°high
38km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity
It had gone 10 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
85% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,096 ha in 2016, 2,388 ha in 2017, 1,817 ha in 2018, 3,460 ha in 2019, 2,107 ha in 2020, 4,270 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 6,570 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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Feshi where it started4,158 ha0.2 %
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3,618 ha0.2 %
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 2020Built-up area4.3 ha
Residents≈ 600
Inside the perimeter there were about 4.3 hectares of built-up land and about 600 residents (GHSL 2020, 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.
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)
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Jun | 32.2 °C | 25 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 7 Jun | 31.5 °C | 26 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 8 Jun | 31.9 °C | 23 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 9 Jun | 31.8 °C | 22 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 10 Jun | 32.0 °C | 21 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 11 Jun | 32.9 °C | 19 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 12 Jun after | 32.6 °C | 26 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 13 Jun after | 32.3 °C | 26 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 14 Jun after | 29.5 °C | 41 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 15 Jun after | 31.7 °C | 32 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 16 Jun after | 31.3 °C | 35 % | 19 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 23 |
| 17 Jun after | 32.9 °C | 22 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 18 Jun after | 29.8 °C | 34 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 19 Jun after | 30.1 °C | 36 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 20 Jun after | 30.1 °C | 42 % | 20 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 23 |
| 21 Jun after | 30.2 °C | 42 % | 27 km/h | 0.7 mm | Moderate 16 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 22.2, a minimum humidity of 25% and 10 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 3.
FWI at the start
22.2
Minimum humidity
25 %
Days without rain
10
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Feshi fire, 6 June 2022
7,726 ha
6 days
FWI 22.2
Min. humidity 25 %
Feshi fire, June 2016
5,469 ha
4 days
FWI 23.7
Min. humidity 28 %
115 km away, in 2016
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Kasongo-Lunda fire, June 2016
5,088 ha
8 days
FWI 23.4
Min. humidity 30 %
158 km away, in 2016
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Masi-Manimba fire, June 2021
6,177 ha
5 days
FWI 27.9
Min. humidity 19 %
77 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
What happened to them
Fires in the area that started in similar weather: 3. With fewer than 15 we give no figures: they would be more noise than signal.
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
38km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 11 Jun, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain.
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 · 30 May 2022
After · 18 Jun 2022
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Detections table · 0Every 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 Feshi fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 6 June 2022 and 11 June 2022: 6 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 7,726 hectares (77.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Feshi (4,158 ha, 0.2 %); Masi-Manimba (3,618 ha, 0.2 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 32.9 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 28, class High.
- 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: 14 June 2022 → 11 June 2022.
- Start date: 31 May 2022 → 6 June 2022.
- Name: Masi-Manimba → Feshi.
- Last day with fire: 11 June 2022 → 14 June 2022.
- Start date: 6 June 2022 → 31 May 2022.
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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.
- 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 2020, 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.