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Wildfires in Cahombo

Cahombo, Angola, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 57,727 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% 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. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 56 % · 29 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 60 % · 30 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 74 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 66 % · 37 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 60 % · 25 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 63 % · 29 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 27° · 67 % · 24 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 60 % · 28 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

57,727
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
10
fires
5,478
km²

How many times has Cahombo burned?

Cahombo has burned 10 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Cahombo fire, August 2026, with 5,437 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 57,727 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 53,123 hectares, 9.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
10
fires
5
years with fire
57,727
cumulative ha
53,123
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 Cahombo

  1. 5,437 ha Cahombo fire, August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,404 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 13,021 ha Cahombo fire, 10 August 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 12,933 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 4,482 ha Cahombo fire, 3 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,344 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,183 ha Marimba fire, 17 July 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 7,153 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 5,692 ha Cahombo fire, July 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 6,059 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 6,095 ha Cahombo fire, July 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,055 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 3,414 ha Cunda-dia-Baze fire, 6 July 2018 0.6% of the municipality · 5,167 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 6,308 ha Cahombo fire, August 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 6,676 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 5,838 ha Cahombo fire, August 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,805 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 6,256 ha Cahombo fire, July 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,763 ha in total · 15 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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