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Wildfires in Cacolo

Cacolo, Angola, has had 52 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 530,862 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 43% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Fri 23 Moderate 34° · 22 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 34° · 38 % · 51 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 39 % · 38 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 47 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 39 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 79 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 61 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 54 % · 24 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

530,862
hectares burned
43 %
of its area
52
fires
12,420
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Cacolo

  1. 1,613 ha Cuemba fire, 22 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 9,627 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 145 ha Quirima fire, 18 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,846 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 592 ha Saurimo fire, 13 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 9,187 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 633 ha Lubalo fire, 12 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,017 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 5,411 ha Cacolo fire, 11 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,383 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 5,621 ha Cacolo fire, 11 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,585 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 6,157 ha Cacolo fire, 10 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,127 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 6,991 ha Cacolo fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 8,307 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 5,728 ha Cacolo fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,695 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 12,577 ha Cacolo fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 12,515 ha in total · 30 days
  11. 46,174 ha Cacolo fire, 1 August 2026 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 46,689 ha in total · 34 days
  12. 110,604 ha Cacolo fire, 29 July 2026 where it started 8.9% of the municipality · 109,963 ha in total · 44 days
  13. 21,022 ha Capenda-Camulemba fire, July 2026 1.7% of the municipality · 59,074 ha in total · 38 days
  14. 5,086 ha Cacolo fire, 24 July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,053 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 14,010 ha Cacolo fire, 23 July 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 13,947 ha in total · 22 days
  16. 1,966 ha Lubalo fire, 22 July 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 25,733 ha in total · 43 days
  17. 6,415 ha Cacolo fire, 21 August 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,375 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 6,641 ha Cacolo fire, 8 August 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,596 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 18,957 ha Cacolo fire, 5 August 2024 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 18,838 ha in total · 14 days
  20. 7,463 ha Cacolo fire, 4 August 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,423 ha in total · 12 days
  21. 5,562 ha Cacolo fire, 12 August 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,532 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 6,160 ha Cacolo fire, 3 August 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,127 ha in total · 12 days
  23. 5,295 ha Cacolo fire, 18 August 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,266 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 5,024 ha Cacolo fire, 13 August 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,096 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 9,137 ha Cacolo fire, 11 August 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 9,079 ha in total · 11 days
  26. 5,403 ha Cacolo fire, August 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,383 ha in total · 6 days
  27. 8,547 ha Cacolo fire, August 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,502 ha in total · 9 days
  28. 5,588 ha Cacolo fire, July 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,557 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 669 ha Lubalo fire, 19 August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 5,033 ha in total · 7 days
  30. 5,298 ha Cacolo fire, 19 August 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,271 ha in total · 9 days
  31. 9,730 ha Cacolo fire, 17 August 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 9,671 ha in total · 11 days
  32. 5,679 ha Cacolo fire, 16 August 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,652 ha in total · 11 days
  33. 2,879 ha Cacolo fire, 15 August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,919 ha in total · 14 days
  34. 36,340 ha Cacolo fire, 13 August 2019 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 36,259 ha in total · 16 days
  35. 29,802 ha Cacolo fire, 13 August 2019 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 29,633 ha in total · 13 days
  36. 6,150 ha Cacolo fire, 27 August 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,115 ha in total · 7 days
  37. 5,038 ha Cacolo fire, 27 August 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,013 ha in total · 7 days
  38. 6,199 ha Cacolo fire, 15 August 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,170 ha in total · 9 days
  39. 2,461 ha Cuemba fire, August 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 6,859 ha in total · 8 days
  40. 12,240 ha Cacolo fire, 26 August 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 12,159 ha in total · 10 days
  41. 6,756 ha Cacolo fire, 17 August 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,714 ha in total · 16 days
  42. 5,224 ha Cacolo fire, 14 August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,196 ha in total · 5 days
  43. 4,588 ha Cacolo fire, 9 August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,731 ha in total · 9 days
  44. 5,306 ha Cacolo fire, 7 August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,270 ha in total · 6 days
  45. 6,002 ha Cacolo fire, July 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,964 ha in total · 20 days
  46. 7,517 ha Cacolo fire, 25 August 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 8,466 ha in total · 4 days
  47. 6,757 ha Cacolo fire, 9 August 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,714 ha in total · 10 days
  48. 6,558 ha Cacolo fire, 7 August 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,519 ha in total · 6 days
  49. 8,446 ha Cacolo fire, 2 August 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,400 ha in total · 7 days
  50. 5,782 ha Cacolo fire, 2 August 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,742 ha in total · 6 days
  51. 5,042 ha Cacolo fire, 28 July 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,012 ha in total · 4 days
  52. 5,876 ha Cacolo fire, 28 July 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,850 ha in total · 11 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).