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Wildfires in Cangandala

Cangandala, Angola, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 209,363 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 35% 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. Tue 3 Low 30° · 47 % · 18 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 43 % · 25 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Low 33° · 39 % · 32 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 49 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 29° · 58 % · 24 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 29° · 55 % · 33 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 28° · 61 % · 35 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 29° · 56 % · 31 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

209,363
hectares burned
35 %
of its area
20
fires
5,955
km²

How many times has Cangandala burned?

Cangandala has burned 20 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Cangandala fire, 6 August 2026, with 5,868 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 209,363 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 170,444 hectares, 29 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 8× 26
20
fires
7
years with fire
209,363
cumulative ha
170,444
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 Cangandala

  1. 5,868 ha Cangandala fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,835 ha in total · 23 days
  2. 7,234 ha Cangandala fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 7,191 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 92 ha Mussende fire, 24 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 11,383 ha in total · 33 days
  4. 6,129 ha Cangandala fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 6,243 ha in total · 26 days
  5. 102,321 ha Cangandala fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 17% of the municipality · 119,840 ha in total · 42 days
  6. 26,531 ha Cangandala fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 26,486 ha in total · 27 days
  7. 598 ha Luquembo fire, 16 July 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 12,928 ha in total · 21 days
  8. 5 ha Luquembo fire, 6 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 6,245 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 5,100 ha Cangandala fire, 23 July 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,067 ha in total · 20 days
  10. 5,356 ha Cangandala fire, 20 July 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,319 ha in total · 20 days
  11. 10,436 ha Cangandala fire, 1 August 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 10,362 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 5,567 ha Cangandala fire, 1 August 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,528 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 29 ha Luquembo fire, June 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 7,055 ha in total · 13 days
  14. 5,593 ha Cangandala fire, 11 June 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,554 ha in total · 12 days
  15. 8,007 ha Cangandala fire, 6 June 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 7,954 ha in total · 15 days
  16. 6,298 ha Cangandala fire, 8 July 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,256 ha in total · 21 days
  17. 5,778 ha Cangandala fire, 5 July 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,737 ha in total · 12 days
  18. 739 ha Luquembo fire, 3 July 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 6,025 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 1,217 ha Luquembo fire, July 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 5,070 ha in total · 17 days
  20. 6,465 ha Cangandala fire, July 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 7,619 ha in total · 20 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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