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Wildfires in Calai

Calai, Angola, has had 42 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 403,831 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 51% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 62).

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. Mon 26 Very high 34° · 22 % · 29 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Extreme 36° · 17 % · 46 km/h
  3. Wed 28 High 33° · 28 % · 40 km/h
  4. Thu 29 High 32° · 24 % · 38 km/h
  5. Fri 30 High 34° · 28 % · 37 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Moderate 31° · 37 % · 39 km/h
  7. Sun 1 High 34° · 28 % · 36 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very high 36° · 18 % · 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

403,831
hectares burned
51 %
of its area
42
fires
7,894
km²

How many times has Calai burned?

Calai has burned 42 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Calai fire, 19 October 2026, with 5,275 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 403,831 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 292,708 hectares, 37 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 6× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 10× 26
42
fires
11
years with fire
403,831
cumulative ha
292,708
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 Calai

  1. 5,275 ha Calai fire, 19 October 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,245 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 8,617 ha Calai fire, 5 October 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 8,564 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 5,192 ha Calai fire, 24 September 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,155 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 7,745 ha Calai fire, 9 September 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 7,716 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 6,996 ha Calai fire, 4 September 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 6,968 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 6,983 ha Calai fire, 3 September 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 6,951 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 8,755 ha Calai fire, 31 August 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 9,539 ha in total · 18 days
  8. 12,386 ha Calai fire, 18 August 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 12,328 ha in total · 20 days
  9. 7,743 ha Calai fire, 18 August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 7,704 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 9,272 ha Calai fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 9,231 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 14,657 ha Calai fire, 11 September 2025 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 14,570 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 8,799 ha Calai fire, 9 September 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 8,878 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 21,205 ha Calai fire, 3 September 2025 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 21,076 ha in total · 19 days
  14. 13,105 ha Calai fire, October 2024 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 13,050 ha in total · 12 days
  15. 5,395 ha Calai fire, 17 July 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,364 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 8,559 ha Calai fire, 7 July 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 8,506 ha in total · 16 days
  17. 10,735 ha Calai fire, September 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 10,664 ha in total · 14 days
  18. 435 ha Cuangar fire, August 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 5,610 ha in total · 21 days
  19. 6,018 ha Calai fire, August 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,988 ha in total · 20 days
  20. 12,632 ha Calai fire, 27 September 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 12,542 ha in total · 15 days
  21. 11,389 ha Calai fire, 10 September 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 11,325 ha in total · 14 days
  22. 7,925 ha Calai fire, 4 September 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 7,877 ha in total · 13 days
  23. 6,915 ha Calai fire, 22 August 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 6,879 ha in total · 16 days
  24. 5,239 ha Calai fire, 15 August 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,203 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 11,956 ha Calai fire, 11 August 2022 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 11,883 ha in total · 13 days
  26. 5,880 ha Calai fire, 2 September 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,850 ha in total · 10 days
  27. 10,847 ha Calai fire, 1 September 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 10,800 ha in total · 21 days
  28. 11,047 ha Calai fire, August 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 11,008 ha in total · 23 days
  29. 10,334 ha Calai fire, 11 September 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 10,261 ha in total · 8 days
  30. 6,468 ha Calai fire, 11 September 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,419 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 23,671 ha Calai fire, 6 September 2020 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 23,514 ha in total · 11 days
  32. 9,499 ha Calai fire, 3 September 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 9,444 ha in total · 7 days
  33. 5,442 ha Calai fire, September 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,423 ha in total · 5 days
  34. 5,649 ha Calai fire, August 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,622 ha in total · 5 days
  35. 11,177 ha Calai fire, July 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 11,109 ha in total · 27 days
  36. 8,222 ha Calai fire, 10 September 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 8,183 ha in total · 15 days
  37. 17,498 ha Calai fire, 8 September 2018 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 17,391 ha in total · 15 days
  38. 5,315 ha Calai fire, 20 September 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,279 ha in total · 8 days
  39. 6,563 ha Calai fire, 19 September 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,525 ha in total · 11 days
  40. 9,189 ha Calai fire, 30 August 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 9,144 ha in total · 8 days
  41. 26,225 ha Calai fire, 23 August 2017 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 26,080 ha in total · 25 days
  42. 6,879 ha Calai fire, September 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 6,844 ha in total · 19 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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