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Wildfires in Ambaca

Ambaca, Angola, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 10,121 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 5,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Very low 29° · 59 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 57 % · 32 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 53 % · 36 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 70 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 78 % · 28 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 69 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 69 % · 23 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

10,121
hectares burned
3.2 %
of its area
3
fires
3,134
km²

How many times has Ambaca burned?

Ambaca has burned 3 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2025. The most recent: Ambaca fire, September 2025, with 5,858 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
3
fires
1
years with fire
10,121
cumulative ha
8 Sept 2025
most recent

Fires larger than 5,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Angola →

Fires that entered Ambaca

  1. 5,858 ha Ambaca fire, September 2025 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 5,821 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 58 ha Quitexe fire, 3 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 68,833 ha in total · 27 days
  3. 4,205 ha Quiculongo fire, September 2025 1.3% of the municipality · 24,366 ha in total · 18 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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