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Wildfires in Cahama

Cahama, Angola, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 85,448 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 40).

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 30 High 33° · 33 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very high 34° · 22 % · 37 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very high 36° · 21 % · 33 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very high 37° · 18 % · 42 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very high 36° · 17 % · 43 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Extreme 37° · 15 % · 54 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Extreme 37° · 14 % · 56 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very extreme 38° · 14 % · 62 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

85,448
hectares burned
8.7 %
of its area
10
fires
9,875
km²

How many times has Cahama burned?

Cahama has burned 10 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2018, 2020, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Cahama fire, September 2026, with 6,561 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 85,448 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 76,878 hectares, 7.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
10
fires
6
years with fire
85,448
cumulative ha
76,878
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 Cahama

  1. 6,561 ha Cahama fire, September 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,526 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 5,323 ha Cahama fire, August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,287 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 17,180 ha Cahama fire, July 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 17,102 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 5,965 ha Cahama fire, September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,932 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 16,386 ha Cahama fire, 14 August 2024 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 16,300 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 5,262 ha Cahama fire, 13 August 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,233 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 5,270 ha Cahama fire, September 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,242 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 8,613 ha Cahama fire, August 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 8,584 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 5,857 ha Cahama fire, September 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,831 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 9,031 ha Cahama fire, August 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 8,984 ha in total · 9 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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