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Wildfires in Cacuso

Cacuso, Angola, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 35,479 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.7% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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 Low 31° · 48 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 33° · 41 % · 30 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 52 % · 36 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 40 % · 32 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 58 % · 30 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 64 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 60 % · 30 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

35,479
hectares burned
5.7 %
of its area
6
fires
6,211
km²

How many times has Cacuso burned?

Cacuso has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2023. The most recent: Cacuso fire, July 2023, with 5,193 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 35,479 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 30,560 hectares, 4.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
4
years with fire
35,479
cumulative ha
30,560
distinct ha

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 Cacuso

  1. 5,193 ha Cacuso fire, July 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,158 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 6,917 ha Cacuso fire, June 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,874 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 5,335 ha Cacuso fire, June 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,301 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 5,237 ha Cacuso fire, May 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,203 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 6,098 ha Cacuso fire, July 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 6,059 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 6,700 ha Cacuso fire, June 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,656 ha in total · 6 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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